 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 2461862Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." It was near the end of March that Thoreau began to build his house, and by the middle of April it was... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 480 pages
...turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have...behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover th^m as if they had lost them themselves." Futile would it be to attempt to show that Thoreau was faultless.... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 482 pages
...and am still on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken concerning them, describing tlieir tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have met...behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover thorn as if they had lost them themselves." Futile would it be to attempt to show that Thoreau \vas... | |
 | John Burroughs, Edmund Clarence Stedman - American essays - 1882 - 194 pages
...turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." JOHN BURROUGHS. II. WILLIAM BLAKE, POET AND PAINTER. WILLIAM BLAKE, POET AND PAINTER. 21 n. WILLIAM... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have...recover them as if they had lost them themselves. To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself ! How many mornings,... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 496 pages
...still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken to concerning them, describing their trades and what calls they answered to. I have met one or...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." Or this essence of A Soul's Tragedy, expanded by Browning in the prose and poetry of Chiappino's life... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken to concerning them, describing their trades and what calls they answered to. I have met one or...recover them as if they had lost them themselves." Or this essence of A Soul's Tragedy, expanded by Browning in the prose and poetry of Chiappino's life... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 368 pages
...turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have...the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind the cloud ; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." In the... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...turtle-dove, and am still on ttcir trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken to concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, aud the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 362 pages
...turtle-dove, ami run still on their trii!. Many nre tlit! travelers I have spoken concerning them, describing their, tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard (lie hound, ami the tramp of tliu horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind the cloud ; and they... | |
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