 I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.  Putnam's Monthly - Seite 4461854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 Seiten
...for that wildness which he represented. Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half-starved hound,...toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, 5 as do most men, and another toward a primitive, rank, and savage one, and I reverence them both.... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1927 - 372 Seiten
...for that wildness which he represented. Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a halfstarved hound,...wildest scenes had become ''unaccountably familiar. I founUTh myself, and still find, an* instinct toward a higher, qr^as itis named, spiritual life, as... | |
 | Kurt Abraham - 1983 - 180 Seiten
...through Thoreau's writings for a comment on reason, I can find none. "I found in myself," wrote Thoreau, "and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or,...as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both."27 The man conditioned by the fourth ray of harmony through... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1986 - 366 Seiten
...the physical marrow of basic living and the immaterial essence of material living at once. He writes, I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward...as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good. (210) The quasi-iconoclastic... | |
 | George Monteiro - 1988 - 196 Seiten
...and the innocence of nature. Such doubleness is also crucial to Thoreau, who writes in "Higher Laws": "I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward...as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both" (210). Nor is the force of this admission diminished when... | |
 | Arno Heller - 1990 - 348 Seiten
...and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented [...]. I found in myself and still find, an instinct toward...as do most men and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both.22 Dieser Spannungsbogen zwischen einer puritanisch-negativen... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 Seiten
...except for the wildness which he represented. Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods like a half-starved hound,...devour, and no morsel could have been too savage for me. ... I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life,... | |
 | Judith Oster - 1994 - 364 Seiten
...represented. (TW 210) Perhaps because Thoreau can also say, "I found in myself, and still find, an instinct higher, or as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and 1 reverence them both," he can more easily acknowledge that savage thrill. He can... | |
 | Malini Johar Schueller - 1992 - 220 Seiten
...oppositions and maintain their dualistic hierarchy. He begins his meditations by subverting the hierarchies: "I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward...as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good" (W 210). But he... | |
 | Nicholas K. Bromell - 1993 - 300 Seiten
...the land has its source in Thoreau's ambivalence toward the body. He states this ambivalence openly: "I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward...spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good" (p. 210). But... | |
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