 Strewn with crabs, horse-shoes, and razor-clams, and whatever the sea casts up, — a vast morgue, where famished dogs may range in packs, and crows come daily to glean the pittance which the tide leaves them. The carcasses of men and beasts together...  Cape Cod - Stranica 173napisao/la Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - Broj stranica: 252Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - Broj stranica: 356
...glean the pittance which the tide leaves them. The carcasses of men and beasts together lie stately up upon its shelf, rotting and bleaching in the sun and...blubber at sea and cut adrift, had been washed up some mouths before. It chanced that this was the most conclusive evidence which we met with to prove, what... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1910 - Broj stranica: 614
...tide turns them in their beds, and tucks fresh sand under them. There is naked Nature, — inhumanely sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray." It certainly is naked Nature with a vengeance, and it was hardly fair to take her portrait in that... | |
 | 1912 - Broj stranica: 900
...tide turns them in their beds, and tucks fresh sand under them. There is naked Nature, — inhumanely sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.' It certainly is naked Nature with a vengeance, and it was hardly fair to take her portrait in that... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1914 - Broj stranica: 532
...tide turns them in their beds, and tucks fresh sand under them. There is naked Nature, — inhumanely sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.'' It certainly is naked Nature with a vengeance, and it was hardly fair to take her portrait in that... | |
 | 1912 - Broj stranica: 936
...tide turns them in their beds, and tucks fresh sand under them. There is naked Nature, — inhumanely sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.' It certainly is naked Nature with a vengeance, and it was hardly fair to take her portrait in that... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - Broj stranica: 506
...onto distant shores, and observe the diverse flora and fauna that comprise the Cape Cod community. "There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting...the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray." Thoreau was fascinated by the depths and floor of the ocean, hidden beneath the surface, and characteristically... | |
 | Bob Pepperman Taylor - 1992 - Broj stranica: 208
...be quite alienated from the raw, untamed nature that he found. Describing the seashore, he writes, "There is naked Nature,— inhumanly sincere, wasting...the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray." A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p. 979. 16. For such a reading, see Max Oelschlaeger, The... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - Broj stranica: 318
...Physicality connects us all and undoes us — all: The carcasses of men and beasts together lie stately up upon its shelf, rotting and bleaching in the sun and...the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray. (CC 147) Thoreau cautions that we should not be so proud as to assume a peculiar malignancy in nature,... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 1995 - Broj stranica: 318
...tide turns them in their beds, and tucks fresh sand under them. There is naked Nature,—inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray. (CC 147) Thoreau cautions that we should not be so proud as to assume a peculiar malignancy in nature,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau, Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1996 - Broj stranica: 236
...glean the pittance which the tide leaves them. The carcasses of men and beasts together lie stately up upon its shelf, rotting and bleaching in the sun and...the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray. Cape Cod (1855-1865), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, pp. 186-187, Houghton Mifflin... | |
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