guru

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

The original PDF is not stored for this edition. Its source passages are available below.

Pages and passages

1. "TUESDAY", para. 8. I had come over the hills on foot and alone in serene summer days, plucking the raspb
2. "TUESDAY", para. 9. It reminded me of the homesteads of the Huguenots, on Staten Island, off the coast of
3. "TUESDAY", para. 10. But to return to the mountain. It seemed as if he must be the most singular and heave
4. "TUESDAY", para. 10. r went this way; there was no path, and I should find it as steep as the roof of a ho
5. "TUESDAY", para. 10. that have known him, they are lost,—how much anxiety and danger would vanish. I am no
6. "TUESDAY", para. 12. I sat up during the evening, reading by the light of the fire the scraps of newspaper
7. "TUESDAY", para. 12. eresting as nature. The very names of the commodities were poetic, and as suggestive
8. "TUESDAY", para. 13. As it was cold, I collected quite a pile of wood and lay down on a board against the
9. "TUESDAY", para. 14. This observatory was a building of considerable size, erected by the students of Will
10. "TUESDAY", para. 15. I was up early and perched upon the top of this tower to see the daybreak, for some t
11. "TUESDAY", para. 15. not the substance of impurity, no spot nor stain. It was a favor for which to be fore
12. "TUESDAY", para. 21. “Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly wrack on his celestial face,”— for b
13. "TUESDAY", para. 26. Since that first “Away! away!” Many a lengthy reach we’ve rowed, Still the sparrow on
14. "TUESDAY", para. 29. The same pleasant and observant historian whom we quoted above says, that, “In the mo
15. "TUESDAY", para. 31. Such was the heaviness of the dews along this river that we were generally obliged to
16. "TUESDAY", para. 33. We rowed for some hours between glistening banks before the sun had dried the grass a
17. "TUESDAY", para. 34. Our course this morning lay between the territories of Merrimack, on the west, and Li
18. "TUESDAY", para. 34. which ran on single and devious, not answering to its opposite, but far off as if it
19. "TUESDAY", para. 35. When there was a suitable reach, we caught sight of the Goffstown mountain, the India
20. "TUESDAY", para. 35. h depended on the fidelity of his scout, running along the white-pine boughs sometime
21. "TUESDAY", para. 36. We passed Cromwell’s Falls, the first we met with on this river, this forenoon, by me
22. "TUESDAY", para. 37. As usual the gossips have not been silent respecting Cromwell’s buried wealth, and it
23. "TUESDAY", para. 39. Here too was another extensive desert by the side of the road in Litchfield, visible
24. "TUESDAY", para. 40. This sand seemed to us the connecting link between land and water. It was a kind of w
25. "TUESDAY", para. 41. Plum Island, at the mouth of this river, to whose formation, perhaps, these very bank
26. "TUESDAY", para. 41. probably Massachusetts does not furnish a more grand and dreary walk. On the seaside
27. "TUESDAY", para. 43. There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so
28. "TUESDAY", para. 44. Early one summer morning I had left the shores of the Connecticut, and for the livelo
29. "TUESDAY", para. 44. a cottage among mountains. You could anywhere run across the stream on the rocks, and
30. "TUESDAY", para. 47. I observed, as I drew near, that he was not so rude as I had anticipated, for he kept
31. "TUESDAY", para. 47. her well nor spring, nor any water but the stream which ran all along the front. I ca
32. "TUESDAY", para. 48. At length Rice himself came in, for it was now dark, with an ox-whip in his hand, bre
33. "TUESDAY", para. 48. rs of daylight in that hollow and mountainous country, which would require me to be o
34. "TUESDAY", para. 49. At length I told him that he was a fortunate man, and I trusted that he was grateful
35. "TUESDAY", para. 52. Before I had left the country of my host, while the first rays of the sun slanted ove
36. "TUESDAY", para. 55. Being now fairly in the stream of this week’s commerce, we began to meet with boats m
37. "TUESDAY", para. 56. The canal-boat is of very simple construction, requiring but little ship-timber, and,
38. "TUESDAY", para. 56. e ancient Oriental game still played on a large scale, as the game of chess, for inst
39. "TUESDAY", para. 57. The news spread like wildfire among us youths, when formerly, once in a year or two,
40. "TUESDAY", para. 57. n the ocean; which again others much doubted. They had been seen to sail across our F
41. "TUESDAY", para. 60. Since our voyage the railroad on the bank has been extended, and there is now but lit
42. "TUESDAY", para. 61. The open and sunny interval still stretched away from the river sometimes by two or m
43. "TUESDAY", para. 64. About noon we passed a small village in Merrimack at Thornton’s Ferry, and tasted of
44. "TUESDAY", para. 65. Some carpenters were at work here mending a scow on the green and sloping bank. The s
45. "TUESDAY", para. 67. The waves slowly beat, Just to keep the noon sweet, And no sound is floated o’er, Sav
46. "TUESDAY", para. 72. “Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure.” But, alas, our chest, like the cabin of a coaste
47. "TUESDAY", para. 73. But, alas, our chest, like the cabin of a coaster, contained only its well-thumbed “N
48. "TUESDAY", para. 74. ool was this fur-trader educated? He seems to travel the immense snowy country with s
49. "TUESDAY", para. 76. “Sagamore Wanalancet come this morning to informe me, and then went to Mr. Tyng’s to
50. "TUESDAY", para. 83. Signed also by Simon Detogkom, King Hary, Sam Linis, Mr. Jorge Rodunnonukgus, John Ow
51. "TUESDAY", para. 87. During the heat of the day, we rested on a large island a mile above the mouth of thi
52. "TUESDAY", para. 87. eroically persevered, nevertheless, waiting for further information. The same regard
53. "TUESDAY", para. 91. The carcasses of some poor squirrels, however, the same that frisked so merrily in th
54. "TUESDAY", para. 93. Here was that “pleasant harbor” which we had sighed for, where the weary voyageur cou
55. "TUESDAY", para. 99. But passing by these rumors of bards, let us pause for a moment at the Teian poet. Th
56. "TUESDAY", para. 105. Thou indeed, dear swallow, Yearly going and coming, In summer weavest thy nest, And i
57. "TUESDAY", para. 110. Nature has given horns To bulls, and hoofs to horses, Swiftness to hares, To lions ya
58. "TUESDAY", para. 115. Late in the afternoon, for we had lingered long on the island, we raised our sail for
59. "TUESDAY", para. 115. perspective would open; looking far into a new country, broad and serene, the cottage
60. "TUESDAY", para. 116. At length the unwearied, never-sinking shore, still holding on without break, with it
61. "TUESDAY", para. 117. It was still wild and solitary, except that at intervals of a mile or two the roof of
62. "TUESDAY", para. 120. We wished to camp this night on a large rock in the middle of the stream, just above
63. "WEDNESDAY", para. 1. WEDNESDAY “Man is man’s foe and destiny.” COTTON. Early this morning, as we were roll
64. "WEDNESDAY", para. 5. As we shoved away from this rocky coast, before sunrise, the smaller bittern, the gen
65. "WEDNESDAY", para. 6. Cohass Brook, the outlet of Massabesic Pond,—which last is five or six miles distant,
66. "WEDNESDAY", para. 8. We learned that Bedford was not so famous for hops as formerly, since the price is fl
67. "WEDNESDAY", para. 11. Such near aspects had we Of our life’s scenery. It might be seen by what tenure men h
68. "WEDNESDAY", para. 12. ssels getting to sea, reaching from the city wharves through the Narrows, and past th
69. "WEDNESDAY", para. 13. But to us river sailors the sun never rose out of ocean waves, but from some green co
70. "WEDNESDAY", para. 15. The small houses which were scattered along the river at intervals of a mile or more
71. "WEDNESDAY", para. 15. urb the devotions of the household,—for Oriental dynasties appear to have passed away
72. "WEDNESDAY", para. 16. We passed a large and densely wooded island this forenoon, between Short’s and Griffi
73. "WEDNESDAY", para. 18. It is a beautiful fable, also related by Pindar, how Helius, or the Sun, looked down
74. "WEDNESDAY", para. 23. Not long after this we saw the Piscataquoag, or Sparkling Water, emptying in on our l
75. "WEDNESDAY", para. 23. e was waving the flag of its Museum, where “the only perfect skeleton of a Greenland
76. "WEDNESDAY", para. 24. According to the Gazetteer, the descent of Amoskeag Falls, which are the most conside
77. "WEDNESDAY", para. 24. in high freshets. As at Shelburne Falls, where I first observed them, they are from o
78. "WEDNESDAY", para. 24. hardest material, had been endeavoring to whirl or flow into the forms of the most fl
79. "WEDNESDAY", para. 26. These, and such as these, must be our antiquities, for lack of human vestiges. The mo
80. "WEDNESDAY", para. 29. If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he
81. "WEDNESDAY", para. 31. Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any;
82. "WEDNESDAY", para. 34. What though the traveller tell us of the ruins of Egypt, are we so sick or idle, that
83. "WEDNESDAY", para. 36. In these parts dwelt the famous Sachem Pasaconaway, who was seen by Gookin “at Pawtuc
84. "WEDNESDAY", para. 37. Manchester was the residence of John Stark, a hero of two wars, and survivor of a thi
85. "WEDNESDAY", para. 40. “The Hon. Wyseman Clagett closed his life in this town.” According to another, “He wa
86. "WEDNESDAY", para. 40. them had been made free from taxes throughout the British dominions by King William,
87. "WEDNESDAY", para. 43. A little south of Uncannunuc, about sixty years ago, as the story goes, an old woman
88. "WEDNESDAY", para. 44. But we were most interested to hear of the pennyroyal, it is soothing to be reminded
89. "WEDNESDAY", para. 44. ant silence, for the one’s profession is a satire on the other’s, and either’s succes
90. "WEDNESDAY", para. 45. After passing through the locks, we had poled ourselves through the canal here, about
91. "WEDNESDAY", para. 45. de now he would take us in tow; but not heeding his taunt, we still loitered in the s
92. "WEDNESDAY", para. 51. In my experience, persons, when they are made the subject of conversation, though wit
93. "WEDNESDAY", para. 52. Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy, Whose features all were cast in Virtue’s mould, As
94. "WEDNESDAY", para. 52. esound ye woods and fields; Sorrow is dearer in such case to me Than all the joys oth
95. "WEDNESDAY", para. 54. The smothered streams of love, which flow More bright than Phlegethon, more low, Isla
96. "WEDNESDAY", para. 57. Who does not walk on the plain as amid the columns of Tadmore of the desert? There is
97. "WEDNESDAY", para. 61. No word is oftener on the lips of men than Friendship, and indeed no thought is more
98. "WEDNESDAY", para. 63. What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful
99. "WEDNESDAY", para. 63. istinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.
100. "WEDNESDAY", para. 68. “Why love among the virtues is not known, Is that love is them all contract in one.”