 I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...  Walden - Page 143by Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike ns to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike tis to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1886 - 476 pages
...principles, what is life and what has it to teach ; and for his answer he went to the woods, there to "drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness out of it ; ... .or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - Authors - 1890 - 268 pages
...is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms." So he went into Walden Woods and built himself a hut, and sowed beans, and grew strangely familiar... | |
 | United States - 1903 - 696 pages
...the essential facts of life, 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...rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and cut close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - Auteurs anglais - 1891 - 226 pages
...simplest elements, brought it within the narrowest compass, or as he himself puts it, ' I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swathe and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it be... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - Auteurs anglais - 1891 - 238 pages
...to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swathe and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it be proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness... | |
 | English philology - 1891 - 424 pages
...wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrovv of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like äs to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad...to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its Iowest teruis, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine uieanness of it,... | |
 | 1900 - 874 pages
...what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life; to live...into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms," &c. And this he did, with great advantage to himself and to all those who ponder over his sage reflections.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1900 - 636 pages
...what it had to teach, and not, when I 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 put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive... | |
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