 | 1887 - 732 pages
...higher aims ! than the anchorites of old. He went to the ' woods, as he himself has told rs, because he wished "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermit of the East. But it was only а two-year»' sojourn, not a life- visit... | |
 | Margaret Sidney - Concord (Mass.) - 1888 - 120 pages
...apace. Why did Thoreau turn from the haunts of men, to a life in the woods? His own words tell us: " 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 live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - American literature - 1888 - 264 pages
...higher aims than the anchorites of old. He went to the woods, as he himself has told us, because he wished " to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life." So far he was like the hermits of the east. But it was only a two-years' sojourn, not a lifevisit,... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 696 pages
...book, "Walden," in which he records his experiences as hermit at Walden Pond, he writes : "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to...and see if I could not learn what it had to teach — I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - Authors - 1890 - 268 pages
...different temperament, resolved to go out into the world, to absorb Nature and the health of Nature : " I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential...see if I could , not learn what it had to teach, and n\ .1 I came to die, discover that I had not livev . I did not wish to live what was not life, living... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1915 - 552 pages
...escape its self-made conventions, and get back to its primal state. "I went to the woods says Thoreau because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. * * *" But the essentials of life are not found by fleeing one's fellow-men. Emerson was misinterpreted;... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...paltry information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform . *r*\ us how this might be done. x/» I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts 7>1 lite, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover... | |
 | English philology - 1891 - 424 pages
...went to the woods because l wished to live deliberately, to front only the essuntial facts ut' lit'e, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not. wlicn l camc to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not lit'e, living... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American literature - 1896 - 310 pages
...tells us, "because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and...when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Some of the readers of " Walden " did not seize the point of this declaration. Whittier wrote to a... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - Authors, American - 1898 - 398 pages
...and in 1845 he built a cabin on Walden Pond, and retired to it. The reason he gave was "because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not lived."... | |
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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... 
