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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of t... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 HenryDavidThoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau Where’er thou sail’s... ...ithin the plain Of its freer waters, beat the shore for banks. CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER CONCORD RIVER “B... ...Grass ground River as long as grass grows and water runs here; it will be Concord River only while men lead peaceable lives 6 AWeekontheConcordandMe... ...d, where they hunted and fished, and it is still perennial grass ground to Concord farmers, who own the Great Meadows, and get the hay from year to ye... ...e hay from year to year. “One branch of it,” according to the historian of Concord, for I love to quote so good author ity, “rises in the south part ... ...Sudbury and Wayland, where it is sometimes called Sudbury River, it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Ass... ...arlisle, and through Billerica, emp ties into the Merrimack at Lowell. In Concord it is, in sum mer, from four to fifteen feet deep, and from one hu...

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...arance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or Part Second, also known as Good Wives, (1869) followed the March sisters into adulthood and their respective marriages. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...gger She glanced down. The blood flowing from her arm was the deep purple of concord grapes. In surprised calm, she turned her arm over and watched th...

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...ifespan would allow. --―Back in the 1990's I had occasion to fly the Concord from Paris to Los Angeles. It left shortly after sundown. To my am...

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...c, while the tattered flaws T ore over them, and now the whole T umultuous concords, seized at once With savage inspiration,—pine, And larch, and beec... ...shaggy map; Where mind and body, in fair junction free, Luted their joyful concord; like the tree From root to flowering twigs a flowing sap. Clear Wi... ...Large as air about the globe; Life, the question, hear its cry Echoed with concordant Why; Life, the small self-dragon ramped, Thrill for service to b... ... healing, wherewith men walk as the Gods beneficently; As a God to sway to concord hearts of men, reconciling them; Gifts of verse, the lyre, the laur... ...tune With the hungers of my kind. Do readings of earth draw thence, Then a concord deeper than cries Of the Whither whose echo is Whence, T o jar unan... ...’s intent; Or where a silken circle views it cowled, The seeming figure of concordance, bent On satiating tyrant lust Or barren fits of sentiment. Tho... ...love that springs from heart and brain In union gives for ripest fruit The concord Kings and States in vain Have sought, who played the lofty brute, A...

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... bodies would stand still, generation and motion would cease in the mutual concord and agreement of all things, so the Spartan legislator seems to hav... ...contested, mutual compliance to unproved deserts to be but a false sort of concord. And some think Homer had an eye to this, when he introduces Agamem... ...a blessed mixture and tempera- ment may be obtained, it seems to be of all concords and harmonies the most concordant and most harmonious. For thus we... ...ause at this time, in memory of his suc- cess, Opimius built the temple of Concord, as if he gloried and triumphed in the slaughter of so many citizen... ... under the inscription of the temple, added this verse:— Folly and Discord Concord’s temple built. Yet this Opimius, the first who, being consul, pres... ...ncert with him. By break of day, he summoned the senate into the temple of Concord, where he read the letters and examined the in- formers. Junius Sil... ..., being consul, convened the senate, and made a short address recommending concord. And Cicero, follow- ing with various remarks such as the occasion ... ...Earth, and Antony and Plancus and Cicero having made orations recommending concord in general and an act of oblivion, it was decreed, that the men sho... ...he Grecian courage was invincible, whensoever it could only have order and concord within itself and a prudent general to direct it. For though they h...

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...sic, which I compared with Rameau; my head was filled with accompaniments, concords and harmony, but 173 Rousseau as it was necessary to accustom the... ...onnected with all social order, I had in view one more secret in behalf of concord and public peace, a greater, and perhaps more important object in i...

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...y you all, stand up. I know you two are rival enemies: How comes this gentle concord in the world, That hatred is so far from jealousy, To sleep by ha... ...and brief! That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow. How shall we find the concord of this discord? PHILOSTRATE: A play there is, my lord, some ten...

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...heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other Flower I see The forest ... ...s; too pure to be refined. Here often hast Thou heard the Poet sing In concord with his River murmuring by; Or in some silent field, while timid...

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...ed, you must know that ‘Misi Mea’ has had another letter, and this time had to answer himself; think of doing so in a language so obscure to me, with ... ... that grind!It’s not lit- erature, you know; only journalism, and pedantic journal- ism. I had but the one desire, to get the thing as right as might ... ...n horseback to Leulumoega to the King; no Cusack-Smith, without whose accession I could not send a letter to Mataafa. I rode up here, wrote my letter ...

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...s a fountain filled with blood”— (Like Rile Potter used to sing it over at Concord). For cards, or for Rev. Peet’s lecture on the holy land; For skipp... ...far, The antennae of Thought that listens through utmost space. Surely the concord that ruled my spirit is proof Of an Ear that tuned me, able to tune... ...-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There at Concord Church on Communion day. Speaking in broken voice of the peasant yo...

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... written “The Marble Faun,” and again returned to The Wayside, his home at Concord. It was then, in 1861, that he took up once more the “Romance of Im... ...e base of a low ridge running beside the Lexington road, in the village of Concord. Rose Garfield is mentioned as living “in a small house, the site o... ...the ancestors of President Garfield settled at Weston, not many miles from Concord, and that the name is still borne by dwellers in the vicinity. One ... ...ers written by the President was an acceptance of an invita tion to visit Concord; and it was his intention to journey thither by carriage, incognito... ...with one or two breaks and interruptions, into the heart of the village of Concord, the county town. It was in the side of this hill that, according t... ...e than on the unprotected plains, or by the river, or in any other part of Concord. So that here, during the hundred years that had elapsed since the ...

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...er, 1537 T ranslated by F . Bente and W. H. T. Dau Published in: Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books of the Ev. Lutheran Church . (St. Louis: C... ...] head, to whom all the rest adhere [as their support] in order that the [concord and] unity of Christians may be preserved against sects and hereti... .... I, Dionysius Melander, subscribe to the Confession, the Apology, and the Concordia on the subject of the Eucha rist. Paul Rhodius, Superintendent ...

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...rom the loft ceiling; the quietude of a middle class household gathered in concord around their fireside. At nine o’clock Burle woke up, yawned and an...

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...nfluence on the destiny of men. There is a certain secret and inexplicable concord or a visible discord between the events of a man’s life and his nam...

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...ith all the grief that had so cruelly crushed her soul. And yet, this true concord of hearts, this understanding so full of magic charm, was disturbed...

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...ou, minion, are too saucy. LUCETTA: Nay, now you are too flat And mar the concord with too harsh a descant: There wanteth but a mean to fill your son...

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...shed “Dolliver Romance” lay upon his coffin during the funeral services at Concord, but, contrary to the impression sometimes entertained on this poin...

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...me, Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth....

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... her studie was and all her thought, How she might ouerthrow the things that Concord wrought. So much her malice did her might surpas, That euen th’Al... ...o bring, And that great golden chaine quite to diuide, With which it blessed Concord hath together tide. Such was that hag, which with Duessa roade, A... ...us despight, And gnasht his yron tuskes at that displeasing sight. Concord she cleeped was in common reed, Mother of blessed Peace, and...