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Barrett Bedford Street began Boston British brought building Bulkeley bullets Buttrick called Captain Channing church Concord company Concord grape COTTAGE Daniel Bliss daughter Deacon doctor Elisha Jones house elms Emerson house England Ephraim Wales Bull epitaph famous father Fight fire friends front gave grape graves Hawthorne Hawthorne's Henry Thoreau hill Hoar Hosmer Indians land Lexington Road liberty pole literary Little Women lived Main Street Manse marched marked meadows meeting-house memorial Meriam's Corner mile militia mill Milldam minister Minutemen Miss Alcott mother Nashawtuc nature neighbors never North Bridge officers Old Concord Orchard House passed pond remember ridge river Sanborn seemed Septimius showed side SIMON WILLARD simple sister slaves Sleepy Hollow Cemetery soldiers Square stands stones stood SUDBURY Thoreau to-day took Town Hall trees turned visitor Walden Wayside William Emerson woods Wright's Tavern wrote young
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Page 144 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 98 - It was good, nevertheless, to meet him in the woodpaths, or sometimes in our avenue, with that pure intellectual gleam diffused about his presence like the garment of a shining one ; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man alive as if expecting to receive more than he could impart.
Page 163 - God wills us free ; — man wills us slaves. I will as God wills ; God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK A native of Africa who died March, 1773, aged about sixty years.
Page 33 - Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood. Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm, Saying, "Tis mine, my children's and my name's.
Page 131 - But, was there ever such a weary delay in obtaining the slightest recognition from the public, as in my case? I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprang up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible, through the entangling depths of my obscurity.
Page 100 - Strange and happy times were those when we cast aside all irksome forms and straitlaced habitudes and delivered ourselves up to the free air, to live like the Indians or any less conventional race during one bright semicircle of the sun. Rowing our boat against the current, between wide meadows, we turned aside into the Assabeth. A more lovely stream than this, for a mile above its junction with the Concord, has never flowed on earth — nowhere, indeed, except to lave the interior regions of a poet's...
Page 33 - Tis mine, my children's and my name's. How sweet the west wind sounds in my own trees! How graceful climb those shadows on my hill! I fancy these pure waters and the flags Know me, as does my dog: we sympathize; And, I affirm, my actions smack of the soil.
Page 92 - wished me to edit and publish a selection from a chest full of manuscript discourses that stood in the garret. Once, while Hillard and other friends sat talking with us in the twilight, there came a rustling noise as of a minister's silk gown, sweeping through the very midst of the company so closely as almost to brush against the chairs.
Page 163 - Though born in a land of slavery, he was born free. Though he lived in a land of liberty, he lived a slave; till by his honest though stolen labors he acquired the source of slavery, which gave him his freedom.
Page 98 - Mr. Emerson delights in him; he talks to him all the time, and Mr. Hawthorne looks answers. He seems to fascinate Mr. Emerson. Whenever he comes to see him, he takes him away, so that no one may interrupt him in his close and dead-set attack upon his ear.