 | Edith Wyatt - American literature - 1917 - 390 pages
...kindred manner. Each speaks with epic swiftness of his way of life. "I went to the woods," says Thoreau, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - English essays - 1921 - 232 pages
...own (the only means) he would work upon the world: — I went to the woods [he writes in "Walden"] because I wished to live deliberately, to front only...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. With this object, he sought to deliver himself from all that is unessential. "I grew in those seasons... | |
 | William Joseph Long - American literature - 1923 - 572 pages
...in his own words : during the first year of his hermitage. Before read. - . . . -11 i* i • * i " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...practise resignation unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life; to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1923 - 444 pages
...information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. L^went to. the_ woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - American essays - 1923 - 284 pages
...was in his heart and its call was in his ears. In Walden he gives his reasons for obeying this call: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, ... to drive life into a corner and reduce... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 pages
...imitated it, so far as externals are concerned. But Thoreau himself had no illusions about it. He says : I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. And in the concluding chapter of Walden he writes : I left the woods for as good a reason as I went... | |
 | Josephine Latham Swayne - Concord (Mass.) - 1905 - 430 pages
...Channing's Thoreau. the Poet-Naturalist. » FB Sanborn in Life of Henry D. Thoreau. t Thoreau in Walden. 6 " I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach." — Thoreau in Walden. ble method, in order to meet my unusual expenses, I planted about two acres... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 446 pages
...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1924 - 460 pages
...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - Friendship - 1925 - 188 pages
...from Bronson Alcott and which he returned sharper than when he received it. Of his purpose he said: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,...came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted ... to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms." It will be seen that Thoreau... | |
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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. 
