 It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village ; for we slept with the windows open,...  The New England Magazine - Page 3591913Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - Civil disobedience - 1866 - 314 pages
...length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village ; for we slept with the windows open,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. . . . It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to be there for one night It seemed to me that I had never heard the town clock strike before, nor the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Slavery - 1890 - 158 pages
...length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village ; for we slept with the windows open,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Québec (Province) - 1892 - 304 pages
...expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village;...open, which were inside the grating. It was to see rny native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...slept with the windows open, which were inside the gratCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 169 ing. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pages
...length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor th» evening sounds of the village ; for we slept witl the windows open,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that I nevei had heard the town-clock strike before, nor th' evening sounds of the village ; for we slept... | |
 | 1895 - 610 pages
...me to blow out the light." His further impressions are thus detailed : " It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that I had never heard the town clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village, for we slept with... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold,...night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open,... | |
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