 It was very queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast...  Walden - Page 275by Henry David Thoreau - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 pages
...queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes iu other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came...if I might next cast my line upward into the air, aa^, well as downward into this element, which was scarcely more dense. Thus I caught two fishes as... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - Literary Collections - 1913 - 512 pages
...queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came...might next cast my line upward into the air, as well 35 as downward into this element which was scarcely more dense. Thus I caught two fishes as it were... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - Literary Collections - 1913 - 530 pages
...link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air, as well 35 as downward into this element which was scarcely more...Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook. Paddling over it, you may see many feet beneath the surface the schools of perch and shiners, perhaps... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - Literature, Modern - 1925 - 304 pages
...cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came to interrupt your dreams, and to link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might...Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook. Were. I writing a book on piscatorial art, a chapter there should be on night fishing, and I should... | |
 | Brooks Atkinson - Authors, American - 1927 - 186 pages
...queer, especially in the dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came...link you to Nature again. It seemed as if I might cast my line upward into the air, as well as downward into this element, which was scarcely more dense.... | |
 | Richard Bridgman - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 332 pages
...refuses to draw that larger conclusion. Rather, he tries to redeem the occasion: "It seemed as if 1 might next cast my line upward into the air, as well...into this element, which was scarcely more dense" (175). "Iwo«/</drink deeper; fish in the sky . . ." he had said at the end of "Where I Lived" (98;... | |
 | Kurt Abraham - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1983 - 180 pages
...queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came...dense. Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook."2 Casting the line of meditative thought upward into abstract worlds of truth and beauty, he... | |
 | Victor Witter Turner, Edward M. Bruner - Education - 1986 - 404 pages
...queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came...Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook" (p. 190). THOREAU AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY As a systematic field of study, the discipline... | |
 | Albert Gelpi - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 348 pages
...queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came...interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again." Levertov keeps her own grip and ours firmly on the line. In searching out "the authentic," she even... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 360 pages
...queer, especially in dark nights, when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cosmogonal themes in other spheres, to feel this faint jerk, which came...Thus I caught two fishes as it were with one hook. I Over the years. Emerson and his family and friends bouglu up the land around \\aldcn Pond as it became... | |
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