 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...experience. All readers of Walden will remember his mythical record of his disappointments : — " I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove,...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." * His riddles were worth the reading, and I confide, that, if i \ at any time I do not understand the... | |
 | American essays - 1862 - 796 pages
...turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, descrihing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." * His riddles were worth the reading, and I confide, that, if at any time I do not understand the expression,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...long ago," he says in the opening chapter of Walden, " lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." It was near the end of March that Thoreau began to build his house, and by the middle of April it was... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 480 pages
...ago lost a hound, a bay-horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks,...behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover th^m as if they had lost them themselves." Futile would it be to attempt to show that Thoreau was faultless.... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 482 pages
...and am still on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken concerning them, describing tlieir tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have met...behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover thorn as if they had lost them themselves." Futile would it be to attempt to show that Thoreau \vas... | |
 | John Burroughs, Edmund Clarence Stedman - American essays - 1882 - 194 pages
...like other laborers." One day he passed a little boy in the street who had on a home-made cap of a woodchuck's skin, and it completely filled his eye....recover them as if they had lost them themselves." JOHN BURROUGHS. II. WILLIAM BLAKE, POET AND PAINTER. WILLIAM BLAKE, POET AND PAINTER. 21 n. WILLIAM... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint " No Admittance " on my gate* I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove,...recover them as if they had lost them themselves. To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself ! How many mornings,... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken to concerning them, describing their trades and what calls they answered to. I have met one or...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." Or this essence of A Soul's Tragedy, expanded by Browning in the prose and poetry of Chiappino's life... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 496 pages
...still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken to concerning them, describing their trades and what calls they answered to. I have met one or...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." Or this essence of A Soul's Tragedy, expanded by Browning in the prose and poetry of Chiappino's life... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, aud the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear...recover them as if they had lost them themselves.' It is not the fact that imports, but the impression. Experience has a triple value under a poetic veil.... | |
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I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the... 
