 I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra - vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.  Walden - Page 500by Henry David Thoreau - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 pages
...understandings, could not sustain birds as well as quadrupeds, flying as well as creeping thing.*, and hush and who, which Bright can understand, were...to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extra vagancef it depends on how you are yarded. The migrating buffalo, which seeks new pastures in another... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - American literature - 1888 - 264 pages
...insists on the merits of literary extravagance. " I fear chiefly lest my expression be not extra-vacant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience. Extra-valance! It depends on how you are yarded." Walden, like all Thoreau 's writings, has its faults.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - Authors, American - 1890 - 336 pages
...charge of extravagance in his statements. " I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience. I am convinced that I cannot exaggerate enough even to lay the foundation of a true expression." The... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...there were safety in stupidity alone. I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra - litigant enough, may not wander far enough beyond. the narrow...to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extra vagancef it depends on how you are yarded. The migrating buffalo, which seeks new pastures in another... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1897 - 344 pages
...; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within hirn ; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his...to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extra vagancef it depends on how you are yarded. The migrating buffalo, which seeks new pastures in another... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...if there were safety in stupidity alone. I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow...truth of which I have been convinced. Extra vagance 1 it depends on how you are yarded. The migrating buffalo, which seeks new pastures in another latitude,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 534 pages
...extravagant enough, — may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of our ordinary insight and faith, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. I desire to speak somewhere without bounds, in order that I may attain to an expression in some degree... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 534 pages
...extravagant enough, — may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of our ordinary insight and faith, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. I desire to speak somewhere without bounds, in order that I may attain to an expression in some degree... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1910 - 496 pages
...if there were safety in stupidity alone. I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be cxtra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow...latitude, is not extravagant like the cow which kicks ove^ the pail, leaps the cowyard fence, and runs after her calf, in milking time. I desire to speak... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1910 - 538 pages
...if there were safety in stupidity alone. I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow...adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance I it depends on how you are yarded. The migrating buffalo which seeks new pastures in... | |
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