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" Primitive Nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and... "
Thematic Guide to American Poetry
by Allan Burns - 2002 - 309 pages
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Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau - History - 1881 - 334 pages
...acquaintance with nature to know her moods and manners. Primitive nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of...have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I learn that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 5

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 380 pages
...acquaintance with Nature to know her moods and manners. Primitive nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of...have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I learn that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out...
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 5

Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 380 pages
...acquaintance with Nature to know her moods and manners. Primitive nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of...have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I learn that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out...
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American Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...acquaintance with Nature to know her moods and manners. Primitive nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of...instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and 30 then, to my chagrin, I learn that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that...
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The Heart of Thoreau's Journals

Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1927 - 382 pages
...acquaintance with Nature, — to know her moods and manners. Primitive Nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of...grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of...
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The Heart of Thoreau's Journals

Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1927 - 380 pages
...acquaintance with Nature, — to know her moods and manners. Primitive Nature is the most interesting to me.' I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of...first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it hi many places. *) I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some...
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The Heart of Thoreau's Journals

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard - Nature - 1961 - 262 pages
...acquaintance with Nature- -to know her moods and manners. Primitive Nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of...many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and munlated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked...
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The North Cascades: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, Second Session ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation - National parks and reserves - 1968 - 1036 pages
...Primitive nature is the most interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I learn that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out...
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Hearings

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1968 - 1634 pages
...acquaintance with Nature — to know her moods and manners. Primitive Nature is the most Interesting to me. I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I hare here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - Fishery law and legislation - 1969 - 1958 pages
...and an entire earth/' We are chagrined, as he was, that we do not have the "entire poem," that our ancestors "have torn out many of the first leaves...grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places," and that the process of mutilation is continuing. We know from surveys that a vast majority of visitors...
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