 Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never...  Good Words - Page 4511888Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 280 pages
...mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs ; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface...its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still. A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh ; —^a_jnirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept...its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still. V^A. field_ot water betrays the spirit that is in the air.J It is continually receiving new life and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1897 - 318 pages
...stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs y no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh...its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still. A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1899 - 456 pages
...needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose brush, — this the light dust-cloth, — which retains...its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still. A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. s It is continually receiving new life and... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - Readers - 1899 - 464 pages
...which no stone can crack, whose s0 quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs ; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface...its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still. A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. 5 It is continually receiving new life and... | |
 | English periodicals - 1902 - 642 pages
...three-quarters in circumference, so transparent that the bottom is seen at a depth of thirty feet, " a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush." Thoreau watched it in the summer stillness, and when the autumn winds moved it into ripples, and the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs ; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface...as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected on its bosom still. A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever...its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still. A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion... | |
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