 We afterwards came to the life-boat in its harbor, waiting for another emergency,— and in the afternoon we saw the funeral procession at a distance, at the head of which walked the captain with the other survivors. On the whole, it was not so impressive...  Cape Cod - Stranica 9napisao/la Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - Broj stranica: 252Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - Broj stranica: 288
...distance, at the head of which walked the captain with the other survivors. On the whole, it was tot so impressive a scene as I might have expected. If...days and nights for the sea to give up its dead, and then- imaginations and sympathies would supply the place of mourners far away, who as yet knew not... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1887 - Broj stranica: 302
...winds and waves, as if to toss and mangle these poor human bodies was the order of the day. If thisAvas the law of Nature, why waste any time in awe or pity?...and sympathies would supply the place of mourners far away, who as yet knew not of the wreck. Many days after this, something white was seen floating... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - Broj stranica: 340
...body cast upon the beach in some lonely place it would have affected him more. "A man," he adds, " can attend but one funeral in the course of his life, can behold but one corpse "; in which saying there is undoubtedly a reference to his own bereavement. It is noticeable that in... | |
 | Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - Broj stranica: 238
...He made acquaintance with a still deeper grief than that of s-elfjrenunciation. 'A man.' ne said. ' can attend but one funeral in the course of his life, can behold but one corpse,' and elsewhere he reflects that a part of us dies with the death of each of our friends. Thoreau's attachment... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - Broj stranica: 356
...away. By his side stood one of the life-boat men, in an oilcloth jacket, who told us how they went to the relief of the British brig, thinking that the...and sympathies would supply the place of mourners far away, who as yet knew not of the wreck. Many days after this, something white was seen floating... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1896 - Broj stranica: 198
...away. By his side stood one of the lifeboat men, in an oil-cloth jacket, who told us how they went to the relief of the British brig, thinking that the...and sympathies would supply the place of mourners far away, who as yet knew not of the wreck. Many days after this, something white was seen floating... | |
 | Edwin Victor Bigelow - 1898 - Broj stranica: 612
...sustained. One was not expected to live. We kept on down the shore as far as a promontory called White Head, that we might see more of the Cohasset rocks. In a...and sympathies would supply the place of mourners far away, who as yet knew not of the wreck. Many days after this, something white was seen floating... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1978 - Broj stranica: 148
...are united: we forget that our friends are dead; we know them as of old. Journal, May 23, 1853 Death A man can attend but one funeral in the course of his life, can behold but one corpse. Cape Cod, "Shipwreck" In proportion as death is more earnest than life, it is better than life. Journal,... | |
 | John Dolis - 2005 - Broj stranica: 244
...bodies was the order of the day. If this was the law of Nature, why waste any time in awe or pity? ... I saw that corpses might be multiplied, as on the...the course of his life, can behold but one corpse." ( CC, 9) Here nature and the mind part ways. Spirit is exceptional; it breaks the law; it bends the... | |
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