 A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills...  Walden - Page 291by Henry David Thoreau - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...years ago. (Sjake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eyej Vlooking into which the beholder measures the depth of his...nature. ) The fluviatile trees next the shore are th~e~sTender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...few traces of man's hand to be seen. The water laves the shore as it did a thousand years ago. X (A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive...are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooden hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows. Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the... | |
 | Walter Dwight Wilcox - Alberta - 1909 - 472 pages
...qualities are such that you will want ten pictures of water to one of any other kind. Thoreau says, " A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive...the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. " And they are eyes and mirrors indeed amid these grand mountains, reflecting and amplifying every... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - Literary Collections - 1913 - 530 pages
...few traces of man's hand to be seen. The water laves the shore as it did a thousand years ago. 15 A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive...it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhang- 20 ing brows. Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...trees, Nature takes me into her own hands, and I breathe freely as the first man. — Alexander Smith. LAKE is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive...hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows. — Thoreau. QO man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 pages
...takes me into her own hands, and I breathe freely as the first man. — Alexander Smith. so so BLAKE is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature....hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows. — Thoreau. ПО man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself... | |
 | Children's literature - 1928 - 106 pages
...been erected, and millions of men had to give their lives before this last bulwark was destroyed. A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye. The trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs... | |
 | Leon Edel - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 49 pages
...fondles placenames and the origin of words. And he is always the self-absorbed Narcissus at his pool: "A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive...the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. . . . Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer or... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 148 pages
...it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives on its banks. A Week, "Concord River" A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive...the beholder measures the depth of his own nature. Walden, "Ponds" Walden Pond It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down... | |
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