 I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.  Walden - Page 257by Henry David Thoreau - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Herbert Newton Casson - Credulity - 1901 - 272 pages
...inculcates the feeble doctrine of pessimism and discouragement. My aim is rather that of Thoreau, who said : "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on the roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." My object is to place optimism upon a rational basis,... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - English prose literature - 1904 - 508 pages
...describe more at length, for convenience, putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. When first I took up my_abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...describe more at length ; for convenience, putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbours up. When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 pages
...describe more at length, for con* venience putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there,... | |
 | National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches - 1910 - 1250 pages
...little more than kind, but less than kin. The motto of its report must be that of Thoreau's "Walden": "I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing in his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." We cannot report mighty numbers nor tumultuous activities... | |
 | Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 578 pages
...describe more at length; for convenience putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there,... | |
 | Delphian Society - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1913 - 548 pages
...describe more at length; for convenience putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as histfly as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. When... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...describe more at length; for convenience, putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...describe more at length; for convenience, putting the experience of two years into one. As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there,... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - Authors, American - 1916 - 162 pages
...captivating woodcut of Thoreau's Walden " hermitage," and repeated on page 92 of the ensuing text : " I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but...standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." The sentence signified more to Thoreau and his first readers than is generally realized. Some unpublished... | |
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