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... where there was not a zephyr to disturb the repose of this glorious Sabbath day , ....
"So silent is the cessile air,
That every cry and call,
The hills, and dales, and forest fair
Again repeats them all...."
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893, p. 92.
PLACE: New England, U.S.A.
TIME: 1839.
For there are very many
Shady mountains and resounding seas between. (Iliad, Homer)
If his messengers repair but to the tent of Achilles, we do not wonder how they got there, but accompany them step by step along the shore of the resounding sea.
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893, p. 96.
PLACE: New England, U.S.A.
TIME: 1839
A fire crackled merrily before the entrance, so near that we could tend it without stepping abroad,... or listened to the wind and the rippling of the river till sleep overtook us. .... The river sucking and eddying away all night down toward the marts and the seaboard .... Instead of the Scythian vastness of the Billerica night, and its wild musical sounds, we were kept awake by the boisterous sport of some Irish labourers on the railroad, wafted to us over the water, still unwearied and unresting on this seventh day, who would not have done with whirling up and down the track with ever-increasing velocity and still reviving shouts, till late in the night.
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893, p. 119.
PLACE: New England, U.S.A.
TIME: 1839.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Description of night camp on the riverbank.
When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent . ....
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893, p. 121.
PLACE: New England, U.S.A.
TIME: 1839
Suddenly a boatman's horn was heard echoing from shore to shore, to give notice of his approach to the farmer's wife with whom he was to take his dinner, though in that place only muskrats and kingfishers seemed to hear.
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893, p. 165.
PLACE: New England, U.S.A.
TIME: 1839
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