Custom-House experience was not such a thraldom and weariness ; my mind and heart were free. Oh, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified ! Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five... The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - Pągina 188per George Gissing - 1903 - 279 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Herbert Sherman Gorman - 1927 - 208 pągines
...Oh, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified ! Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have...providing food for cows and horses? It is not so." This was in August, 1841, and, though with the interruption of a return to Salem and several visits... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pągines
...whose authority and dignity the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified! Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have...providing food for cows and horses? It is not so. [THOREAU] Mr. Thoreau dined with us yesterday. . . . He is a keen and delicate observer of nature,... | |
 | Lloyd R. Morris - 1927 - 426 pągines
...the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified! Dost thou think it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses? Dearest, it is not so." Leisure was in sight, but he felt that it would be long before he could make... | |
 | Newton Arvin - 1929 - 356 pągines
...the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified ! Dost thou think it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses? Dearest, it is not so. The freedom thus joyfully anticipated was not a departure from the farm for... | |
 | Nora Sayre - 1996 - 340 pągines
...furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money." Later he wrote, "Is it a praiseworthy thing that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses? It is not so." Sixties Going on Seventies Naturally farm work was preferable to the tyrannical athletic programs that... | |
 | Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 pągines
...this world, and nobody can meddle with it, without becoming proportionably brutified. Dost thou think it a praiseworthy matter, that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses? Dearest, it is not so. Thank God, my soul is not utterly buried under a dung-heap."52 Interestingly,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1958 - 260 pągines
...from all farm labor except what he might choose to do. "Is it a praiseworthy matter," he asked Sophia, "that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses?" He no longer hoped to make his home at the farm, and he soon had decided not to stay through the winter.... | |
 | R. Todd Felton - 2006 - 99 pągines
...free. 0, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified! Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have...providing food for cows and horses? It is not so. After a few weeks' break in September, Hawthorne lasted until November, when he was released from his... | |
 | 1941 - 380 pągines
..."Oh, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionally brutified! Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have...providing food for cows and horses? It is not so." Within a year Hawthorne left Brook Farm. Meanwhile, almost from the beginning the Farm lost money.... | |
 | 1897 - 1168 pągines
...Hawthorne, who went into the fellowship in perfect good faith, found the life, his note-book proves : "Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five...golden months in providing food for cows and horses Ī " he asks, and then cries out in answer : " It is not so ! " At another time he asserts that of... | |
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