 ... at a colder and drearier region than we were born in. It insists upon everybody's adding somewhat — a mite, perhaps, but earned by incessant effort — to an accumulated pile of usefulness, of which the only use will be, to burden our posterity...  Transformation: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Side 203af Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1861 - 400 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1890 - 880 sider
...only felt, but said, that " it is the iron rule in our day to require an object and a purpose in life. No life now wanders like an unfettered stream ; there...wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right." As for Mr. Thoreau, he is perhaps more diffuse than Solomon himself. " It would be glorious," he writes,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 272 sider
...the only use will be, to burden our posterity with even heavier thoughts and more inordinate labor than our own. No life now wanders like an unfettered...impossible nowadays to be what his forefathers had been. lie could not live their healthy life of animal spirits, in their sympathy with nature, and brotherhood... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1860 - 308 sider
...thoughts and more inordinate labour than our own. No life now wanders like an unVOL. II. 29 fettered stream; there is a mill-wheel for the tiniest rivulet...strenuous a resolution to go all right. Therefore it was—so, at least, the sculptor thought, although partly suspicious of Donatello's darker misfortune—that... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 666 sider
...enjoyment. " It is the iron rule in our day to require an object and a purpose in life. It makes us all parts of a complicated scheme of progress, which...is a mill-wheel for the tiniest rivulet to turn. We all go wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right."^ Infected with the like doctrine is the... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 672 sider
...It insists upon everybody's adding somewhat—a mite, perhaps, but earned by incessant effort—to an accumulated pile of usefulness, of which the only...is a mill-wheel for the tiniest rivulet to turn. We all go wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right."^ Infected with the like doctrine is the... | |
 | 1888 - 552 sider
...the only use will be, to burden our posterity with even [_ heavier thoughts and more inordinate labor than our own. No life now wanders like an unfettered...young Count found it impossible nowadays to be what bis forefathers had been. He could not live their healthy life of animal spirits, in their sympathy... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 550 sider
...the only use will be, to burden our posterity with even heavier thoughts and more inordinate labor than our own. No life now wanders like an unfettered...all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all risrht. could not live their healthy life of animal spirits, in their sympathy with nature, and brotherhood... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 540 sider
...use will be, to burden our posterity with even heavier thoughts and more inordinate labor than out own. No life now wanders like an unfettered stream:...wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right Thercfore it was — so, at least, the sculptor thought, although partly suspicious of Donatello's... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 274 sider
...the only use will be, to burden our posterity with even heavier thoughts and more inordinate labor than our own. No life now wanders like an unfettered stream ; there is a mill-wheel lor tiniest rivulet to turn. We go all wrong, by too strenuousaresplutionto go all right. ""Therefore... | |
 | 1889 - 608 sider
...inordinate labor than our own. No life now wanders like an unfettered stream; there is a mill wheel for the tiniest rivulet to turn. We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.' Is this over-pressure in thought and action a mere sentimental fancy, or a genuine evil? If real, what... | |
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