Journal, Volume 2
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 1, 1984
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780691061863
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary studies: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Biography / Autobiography; American Prose; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Diaries; American - General; Literary; American Language and Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 19th century; 1817-1862; Authors, American; Thoreau, Henry David,
First sentence: While we ascended the stream, plying the oars, or shoving our way along, with might and main, the current of our dreams also was somewhat ruffled and impetuous; but when we turned the prow down stream, rock, tree, kine, knoll, silently assuming new and varying position, as wind and tide shifted the scene, we yielded ourselves to the liquid undulating lapse of thought.