 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1882 - 278 pages
...that dwell within them. With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all...the woven cloth ; up comes the silk, down goes the woollen ; up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its... | |
 | American prose literature - 1891 - 432 pages
...that dwell within them. With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all...the woven cloth ; up comes the silk, down goes the woollen: up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...that dwell within them. With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all...the woven cloth; up comes the silk, down goes the woollen ; up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...that dwell within them. With such \ huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all...the woven cloth ; up comes the silk, down goes the woollen ; up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 418 pages
...that dwell within them. With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all...the woven cloth; up comes the silk, down goes the woollen; up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1910 - 496 pages
...dwell within them. With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. AH the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all the...the woven cloth; up comes the silk, down goes the woollen; up come the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its... | |
 | Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 524 pages
...that dwell within them. With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all...the books, but down goes the wit that writes them. When I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion,—or, rather, like... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...that dwell within them. With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. J When I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion, — or, rather, like... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 192 pages
...to the Boston market from the country's hills, they lose their most essential qualities in transit. "Up comes the cotton, down goes the woven cloth; up comes the silk, down goes the woolen; up comes the books, but down goes the wit that writes them" (p. 116). Popular writers are "the machines... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 472 pages
...country's hills, they lose their most essential qualities in transit. "Up comes the cotton, down does the woven cloth; up comes the silk, down goes the woolen; up comes the books, but down goes the wit that writes them" (p. 116). Popular writers are "the machines... | |
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With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city. All the Indian huckleberry hills are stripped, all the cranberry meadows are raked into the city. Up comes the cotton, down goes the woven cloth; up comes the silk, down goes... 
