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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia Stat... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Elec... ...unity university. 3 HenryDavidThoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau Where’er thou sail’st who sailed with me, ... ... sailed with me, Though now thou climbest loftier mounts, And fairer rivers dost ascend, Be thou my Muse, my Brother—. I am bound, I am bo... ... O VID, Met. I. 39 5 HenryDavidThoreau He confined the rivers within their sloping banks, Which in different places are part abs... ... though he must collect the rest of his revenue at the point of the sword. Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first... ...ged read their Bibles. Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prairie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes... ...ll wandering the sea in thy scaly armor to inquire humbly at the mouths of rivers if man has perchance left them free for thee to enter. By countless ...

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...e, what was the use of 5 Yo n g e keeping the poor lad unsettled? So Mrs. Rivers, the eldest sister and the member’s wife, had come to arrange matter... ...wedding had taken place shortly after Easter; and im- mediately after, the Rivers family had departed for London, and T om May had returned to Cambrid... ...the increasing pallor of the liquid. Mary, a ‘fine young woman,’ as George Rivers called her, of blooming face and sweet open expression, had begun, a... ...Arnott’s accounts, it was clear that the wife took a quadruple share. Mrs. Rivers had been heard to say that Norman need not have gone so far, and sac... ...sure in which county; but there’s a fine beach, and beautiful country. The Riverses found it out, and have been there every autumn; besides sending th... ...ought of that before, and now Aubrey may get some shoot- ing out of George Rivers.” After such good-nature my mouth is shut, though, ay di me, all the... ...on little Miss at last for her treatment of the Doctor, and neither he nor Rivers have forgiven me.’ ‘Poor child! I don’t believe she has ever known a... ...lies who had hitherto been patients of the Wards; and worse than all, Mrs. Rivers took her child up to London for three days in November, and it becam... ...erly dame, part nurse, part nursery governess, presently came to take Miss Rivers out, but Miss Rivers, with a whine in her voice, insisted on going n...

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...ins of the land of Midian did tremble. 8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea... ... oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the over flowing o...

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...AM:) DUKE of NORFOLK : (NORFOLK:) EARL of SURREY : His son. (SURREY:) EARL RIVERS : Brother to Elizabeth. (RIVERS:) MARQUIS OF DORSET: (DORSET:) a... ... of Prince Edward:) (Ghost of King Henry VI:) (Ghost of CLARENCE:) (Ghost of RIVERS:) (Ghost of GREY:) (Ghost of VAUGHAN:) (Ghost of HASTING:) (Ghosts... ...rd III, Act I, scene ii 16 SCENE III: The palace. [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, RIVERS, and GREY .] RIVERS: Have patience, madam: there’s no doubt his m... ...nd merry words. QUEEN ELIZABETH : If he were dead, what would betide of me? RIVERS: No other harm but loss of such a lord. QUEEN ELIZABETH : The lo... ...o the trust of Richard Gloucester, A man that loves not me, nor none of you. RIVERS: Is it concluded that he shall be protector? QUEEN ELIZABETH : I... ...ness, which, I think proceeds From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice. RIVERS: Saw you the king to day, my Lord of Derby? King Richard III, Ac... ... But thus his simple truth must be abused By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? RIVERS: To whom in all this presence speaks your grace? GLOUCESTER: To ... ...may deny that you were not the cause Of my Lord Hastings’ late imprisonment. RIVERS: She may, my lord, for— GLOUCESTER: She may, Lord Rivers! why, w... ...honors on your high deserts. What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she— RIVERS: What, marry, may she? GLOUCESTER: What, marry, may she! marry w...

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...’ breeding, but doubtless of their being in season; as may appear by three rivers in Monmouthshire, namely, Severn, Wye, and Usk, where Camden observe... ... to April; and we are certain, that in Thames and Trent, and in most other rivers, they be in season the six hotter months. Now for the Art of catchin... ...ur flies neat and rightly made, and not too big, serve for a Trout in most rivers, all the summer: and for winter fly fishing it is as useful as an Al... ...luid air, and so makes her highway over the steepest mountains and deepest rivers, and in her glorious career looks with contempt upon those high stee... ...aving hung up their then mute harps upon the willow trees grow ing by the rivers of Babylon, sat down upon those banks, bemoaning the ruins of Sion, ... ...ntemplating their own sad condition. And an ingenious Spaniard says, that “rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to ... ...e myself from the last, by offering to you a short contemplation, first of rivers, and then of fish; concerning which I doubt not but to give you many... ...ver, and contemplated what I shall now relate to you. And first concerning rivers; there be so many won ders reported and written of them, and of the... ...ds still and rests all their sabbath. But I will lay aside my discourse of rivers, and tell you some things of the monsters, or fish, call them what y...

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... “I’ll go! I’ll go!” Mr. Bessemer glanced nervously at Travis. “That’s Mr. Rivers, isn’t it, daughter?” Travis smiled. “Well, I think I’ll—I think I’d... ...one thing, Howard,” remarked T ravis calmly, “don’t you ever again ask Mr. Rivers for a nickel to put in your bank.” Mr. Bessemer roused up. “Did that... ... down to the outside door, and before anything further could be said young Rivers came into the dining-room. 10 Blix Chapter II FOR SOME REASON, neve... ...he East- ern journals. He earned $100 a month. When Snooky had let him in, Rivers dashed up the stairs of the Bessemers’ flat, two at a time, tossed h... ...hat come from?” “That cuckoo clock?” inquired Travis, with a stare. “Condy Rivers, you’ve been here and in this room at least twice a week for the las... ...ave a new key made to-morrow.” “Hey? Y es—yes. Is that so?” answered Condy Rivers, bewildered, wishing to be polite, yet unable to follow the old man’... ...and Condy were still discussing this story, Mr. Bessemer rose. “W ell, Mr. Rivers,” he announced, “I guess I’ll say good-night. Come, Snooky.” “Y es, ... ...as borne in upon him that she was thinking precisely the same thing. Condy Rivers had met T ravis at a dance a year and a half before this, and, becau... ...s known as the Y ounger Set; though T ravis was too young to come out, and Rivers too old to feel very much at home with girls of twenty and boys of e...

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...: Earl of Richmond, a youth (HENRY OF RICHMOND:). Henry VI, Part III 4 LORD RIVERS : brother to Lady Grey. (RIVERS:) SIR WILLIAM STANLEY : (STANLEY:)... ... throne. [Exeunt.] SCENE IV: London. The palace. [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and RIVERS ] RIVERS: Madam, what makes you in this sudden change? QUEEN ELIZ... ... Madam, what makes you in this sudden change? QUEEN ELIZABETH : Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn What late misfortune is befall’n King Edward... ...gainst Warwick? QUEEN ELIZABETH : No, but the loss of his own royal person. RIVERS: Then is my sovereign slain? QUEEN ELIZABETH : Ay, almost slain,... ...Part III , Act IV , scene iv 64 Fell Warwick’s brother and by that our foe. RIVERS: These news I must confess are full of grief; Yet, gracious madam... ... tears I blast or drown King Edward’s fruit, true heir to the English crown. RIVERS: But, madam, where is Warwick then become? QUEEN ELIZABETH : I a... ...ain. CLARENCE: A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer’d, rivers cannot quench. WARWICK: In Warwickshire I have true hearted frien...

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...rd GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Be hold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon yo... ...ee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for mysel... ...self. 4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst ... ...to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. Ezekiel... ...I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought tog... ...nd I have made it. 10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from ... ...ds against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make ... ... boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all ... ... the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his ...

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...r, The snow be in her kirtle, The rose be in her hair! The hue of highland rivers Careering, full and cool, From sable on to golden, From rapid on to ... ... and grasses, Only the mightier movement sounds and passes; Only winds and rivers, Life and death. 12 Songs of Travel XVI (To the tune of Wandering W... ...s flow at the finger of pain; And out of the cloud that smites, beneficent rivers of rain. Vailima. XL – AN END OF TRAVEL Let now your soul in this su...

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... Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of...

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...see the clergyman. “This, then, was his father’s residence?” “Aye; old Mr. Rivers lived here, and his father, and grandfa- ther, and gurt (great) gran... ...hn is like his kirstened name.” “And his sisters are called Diana and Mary Rivers?” “Yes.” “Their father is dead?” “Dead three weeks sin’ of a stroke.... ...and mis- tress, and “the childer,” as she called the young people. Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancien... ...nd of as ancient a family as could be found. Marsh End had belonged to the Rivers ever since it was a house: and it was, she affirmed, “aboon two hund... ... she could remember Bill Oliver’s father a journeyman needlemaker; and th’ Rivers wor gentry i’ th’ owd days o’ th’ Henrys, as onybody might see by lo... ...reakfast.” I did not refuse it, for my appetite was awakened and keen. Mr. Rivers now closed his book, approached the table, and, as he took a seat, f... ...ves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily. “Mr. Rivers,” I said, turning to him, and looking at him, as he looked at me, op... ... as a teacher—Lowood Orphan Asylum, -shire: you will have heard of it, Mr. Rivers?—the Rev. Robert Brocklehurst is the treasurer.” “I have heard of Mr... ...y hunger, exhaus- tion, and despair almost to the last gasp, that you, Mr. Rivers, forbade me to perish of want at your door, and took me under the sh...

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...a picture of the shapes of the coast-line of the land and the sea, and the rivers in them, and mountains, and the like. Look here!” And she made Lucy ... ...here the deep gray 29 Yo n g e clefts between seemed to spread into white rivers, or over the ruddy purple of the half-distance came sharp white line... ... that she was in the great plains called the Steppes, that lie between the rivers V olga and Don. “Do you live there?” she asked, by way of beginning ...

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...ing at the foot of the Alleghany Mountains, and at the juncture of the two rivers Monongahela and Alleghany. Here, at the town, they come together, an... ...te, for the spurs of the mountains come down close round the town, and the rivers are broad and swift, and can be seen for miles from heights which ma... ...pice; so that a commanding view is obtained down upon the town and the two rivers and the different bridges, from a height immediately above them. I w... ...er like the Ohio can form the bound- ary between the divided nations. Such rivers are the high- ways, round which in this country people have clustere... ...een perfect, regarding it as ordinary English park-scenery. But the little rivers at this place have a dirty trick of burying themselves under the gro... ...d left his mark in that territory he went again farther west, over the big rivers into Missouri, and there he died. But the men of Kentucky are proud ... ... this State, in midsummer, is very great, especially in the valleys of the rivers. At St. Louis, on the Mississippi, it reaches commonly to ninety de-... ...hat they command 46,000 miles of navigable river water, counting the great rivers up and down from that place. These rivers are chiefly the Missis- si... ...o, which fall into the Missis- sippi near St. Louis; the Platte and Kansas Rivers, tribu- taries of the Missouri; the Illinois, and the Wisconsin. All...

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...t Wind, among lilies, in and out; I, the unnamed, inviolate, Green, rustic rivers, navigate; My dipping paddle scarcely shakes The berry in the brambl... ...Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert, Where thou with grass, and rivers, and the breeze, And the bright face of day, thy dalliance hadst; Wh...

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...stant passed. On a strange mob of panting trees, And fences fled away, And rivers where the houses ran The living looked that day. The bell within the... ...daily drunken there. Then look out for the little brook in March, When the rivers overflow, And the snows come hurrying from the hills, And the bridge... ...ssly leave. 280 LVII THE hills erect their purple heads, The Rivers lean to see— Yet Man has not, of all the throng, A curiosity. ... ... 326 CXLVI I did not reach thee, But my feet slip nearer every day; Three Rivers and a Hill to cross, One Desert and a Sea— I shall not count the jou... ...tand. We step like plush, we stand like snow— The waters murmur now, Three rivers and the hill are passed, T wo deserts and the sea! Now Death usurps ...

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..., scene i 38 portunities for the ork. ‘Pless my soul! [Sings.] To shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sings madrigals; ... ...g, this way, Sir Hugh. SIR HUGH EVANS : He’s welcome. [Sings.] To shallow rivers, to whose falls Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he? SIMPL... ...ie! he’ll never come. SIR HUGH EVANS : You say he has been thrown in the rivers and has been grievously peaten as an old ‘oman: methinks there shoul...

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...e hills, and never a drop of water is to be found except for the lakes and rivers we may mark out in chalk. But after one example others are easy, and...

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... General, as all the world knows, is hot; and Mrs. Talboys, when the sweet rivers of her enthusiasm are unfed by congenial waters, can, I believe, mak...

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..., treeless, manless, lifeless— A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still, And nothing stirr’d within the...

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...heir hunger for the brave, fruitful, nobly-inhabited, full of cata- racts, rivers, bays, pure, smooth-plained, sweet grassy land of Erinn”—(pp. 52-53)... ...rime dropped was that the cow hight Audhumla was made of it; but four milk-rivers ran out of her teats, and she fed Ymir; she licked rime-stones that ... ...e V olsunga Saga worms’ heads turn into the house, and blow venom, so that rivers of venom run along the hall, and in those rivers must such men wade ... ...Saga brought it with them from Asia, or evolved it among the mountains and rivers it has taken for scenery, none know nor can; but each branch of thei... ...d Will thy brother give thee, And the stead of Vandil (3) One of the rivers of the under-world. 134 The V olsunga Saga And the lands of Vigd...