I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms... Century Readings in the English Essay - Page 30edited by - 1926 - 529 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1877 - 832 pages
...living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike ns to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
| Margaret Sidney - 1888 - 120 pages
...learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep, and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
| Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 pages
...living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
| 1903 - 696 pages
...front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach — I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
| Peter Anderson Graham - 1891 - 226 pages
...its simplest elements, brought it within the narrowest compass, or as he himself puts it, ' I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swathe and... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 pages
...living is so dear ; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary, vj wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as * to put to rout all that was not life} to cut a broad swath and... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 pages
...living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
| george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and... | |
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