The Treasure Chest: An Anthology of Contemplative ProseJames Donald Adams E.P. Dutton, Incorporated, 1946 - 402 Seiten |
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... tree wood , which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years , first in Connecticut , and afterward in Massa- chusetts - from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still , as appeared by counting the annual layers ...
... tree wood , which had stood in a farmer's kitchen for sixty years , first in Connecticut , and afterward in Massa- chusetts - from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still , as appeared by counting the annual layers ...
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... Tree SHOULD NOT TAKE either the biggest or the most picturesque tree to illustrate it . Here is one of my favorites now before me , a fine yellow poplar , quite straight , perhaps 90 feet high , and four thick at the butt . How strong ...
... Tree SHOULD NOT TAKE either the biggest or the most picturesque tree to illustrate it . Here is one of my favorites now before me , a fine yellow poplar , quite straight , perhaps 90 feet high , and four thick at the butt . How strong ...
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... trees , which were uncommon in that country . All this time he was skirting the slope of a great mountain , but because he was actually on it , and because the trees were so thick , he did not think of a mountain ; and besides , it made ...
... trees , which were uncommon in that country . All this time he was skirting the slope of a great mountain , but because he was actually on it , and because the trees were so thick , he did not think of a mountain ; and besides , it made ...
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SIR WALTER RALEIGH | 13 |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | 22 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE | 38 |
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry beauty better bird body C. S. Lewis character creature dead death delight dreams dust E. B. White earth Ellen Glasgow evil eyes fear feel friends GEORGE SANTAYANA give H. M. TOMLINSON happiness hath heart heaven HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL human imagination individual keep kind knew laugh laws liberty light living look man's mankind means memory ment mind moral nature ness never night object opinion ourselves pain pass passions past peace person pleasure poet poetry prose RALPH WALDO EMERSON reason rich Robert Henriques SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE seems sense sentiment sleep solitude soul speak spirit stars strong talk temper things thou thought tion tree true truth Van Wyck Brooks vanity virtue voice walk whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wind wisdom wise women words write youth