 While yet alive, before their tints had faded, they glistened like the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers; and he could hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swam away in that Aboljacknagesic water...  The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Стр. 71авторы: Henry David Thoreau - 1894Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1909 - Страниц: 128
...before their tints had faded, they glistened like the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers, seen of Indians only, made beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there ! But there is the rough voice of Uncle George, who commands at the frying-pan. The pork sizzles, and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1954 - Страниц: 294
...in; and the finest specimens of both that I have ever seen, the largest one weighing three pounds, were heaved upon the shore, though at first in vain,...beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there! . . . "In the night I dreamed of trout-fishing; and, when at length I awoke, it seemed a fable that... | |
 | Leo J. Eiden - 1981 - Страниц: 1298
...developed his meaning characteristically when reflecting on the beauty of some trout. «I could undestand better for this the truth of mythology, the fables...beautiful seamonsters how all history indeed, put to a terrestial use, is mere history, but to a celestial, is mithology always» (Math. pg. 628). But Hawthorne,... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - Страниц: 506
...He characterizes trout caught for supper as "the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers," "these bright fluviatile flowers, seen of Indians...beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there!" thus reassuring himself that nature is not evil. That night Thoreau dreams of the beautiful trout,... | |
 | Richard Francis - 1997 - Страниц: 286
...rivers; and he could hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swum away in that Aboljacknagesic water for so long, so...mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always.29 The contention here is that "mere history" is utilitarian, whereas mythology reflects the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 2010 - Страниц: 376
...rivers; and he could hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swum away in that Aboljacknagesic water for so long, so...mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea-monsters,-how all history, indeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial,... | |
 | John Dolis - 2005 - Страниц: 244
...rivers; and he could hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swum away in that Aboljacknagesic water for so long, so...many dark ages; — these bright fluviatile flowers. ... I could understand better, for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those... | |
 | Terence Martin - 1995 - Страниц: 592
...like "jewels" or "bright fluviatile flowers." The sight brings the writer to a better understanding of "the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea-monsters." Put to "terrestrial use," he comes to see, history is "mere history." Put to "celestial" use, it is... | |
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