 It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful ; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect...  The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Page 143by Henry David Thoreau - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 582 pages
...glorious to carve and paint tho Very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that Is the...information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done." An amusing story is told in the entertaining History of Newburyport, by... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which wo look, which morally •we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his ltfft. even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. If... | |
 | Education - 1889 - 590 pages
...in his work pf soul developments if he could constantly keep in mind this motto from Thorean : ' ' Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. MEC OUR SCHOOL HOUSE, [To the writer of this paper was awarded the prize of Five Dollars according... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, — that is the highest of arts. w«j>i3«,p.9&. beauty Real Hie. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear ; nor... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1893 - 550 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which moraDy we ct-n do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the...up, such paltry information as we get, the oracles woidd distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1854 - 392 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the...information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1899 - 386 pages
...and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts....information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Conduct of life - 1901 - 520 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the...information as we get, the oracles would distinctly inform us how this might be done. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only... | |
 | Emma Frances Angell Drake - 1902 - 240 pages
...glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the...its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most critical hour." And again he says, "We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and... | |
 | English periodicals - 1902 - 642 pages
...ducks, we have " Walden," a treasure, a Koh-i-noor among books. He had lived the words before he said, " Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its...contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour." And the influence of this elevated and critical life throws its rays in every direction, forms prismatic... | |
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