...carefully watched and noted by him, and a faithful record of the fall of snow and rain kept. He says there was never yet such a storm but it was ^-Eolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. In winter he made a map of Walden Pond, his small ocean, and put down more than a hundred soundings,...

...closing paragraph. What impression does the whole chapter make on you? 5. Solitude. (There can le no very 'black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.) Suggestion 11. Enumerate the comparisons used by the author to convey an idea of his solitary situation....

...element in life, he yet practically lived up to his belief that melancholy was a form of slovenliness : " Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness." Surely no man had ever greater hope or greater faith ; and the beauty and the strength of his work,...

...condition of life," and despondency nothing more than a senseless and idle aberration. " There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still. Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. While I enjoy the friendship...

...night through the pitch-dark Walden forest while his mind was full of merry thoughts. And again, ' There was never yet such a storm but it . was ^Eolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.' One thinks of seamen in a roaring tempest, bleared and chilled by the icy waves and battling for life...

...fatalism and that Christian resignation expressed in confidence that the ways of Providence are just. ' Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness,' he says, as if through devious ways the unseen force were driving us on to a great end. ' The Lord...

...found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can bo no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst...still. There was never yet such a storm but it was jEolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a...

...found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst...still. There was never yet such a storm but it was JEolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a...

...found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst...still. There was never yet such a storm but it was .ZEolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to...

...found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst...still. There was never yet such a storm but it was vEolian music to a healthy and innocent ear. Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a...