As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him... Putnam's Monthly - Страница 4441854Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 страници
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my paih, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour...the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half -starved' hound, with a strange abandonment, seeking some kind of venison which I might devour,... | |
| Robert Weisbuch - 1989 - 364 страници
...chaste Henry. Thoreau begins the chapter wonderfully and typically. He wishes to rip into a woodchuck "and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented" (2.10). This is the wildness of cultural youth that Garber defines accurately as "primordial life not... | |
| Arno Heller - 1990 - 348 страници
...Tötungsimpulse: I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and feit a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour...then, except for that wildness which he represented [...]. I found in myself and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual... | |
| Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 страници
...dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry, then, except for the wildness which he represented. Once or twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself... | |
| Catherine L. Albanese - 1991 - 283 страници
...fishing after dark, he "caught a glimpse of a woodchuck" and then "felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw." "Not that I was hungry then," he added, "except for that wildness which he represented." And in milder vein, in the semicompleted... | |
| Judith Oster - 1994 - 364 страници
...2:171) I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that 1 was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented. (TW 210) Perhaps because Thoreau... | |
| Michael Kimmel - 2009 - 402 страници
...fashion. "I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour...then, except for that wildness which he represented." Ingesting the wildness, Thoreau suggests, allows middle-class men to free themselves.13 If middle-class... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1995 - 360 страници
...woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted 2 to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry...except for that wildness which he represented. Once or 3 twice, however, while I lived at the pond, I found myself ranging the woods, like a half-starved... | |
| Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 страници
...Returning home at night after fishing with John Field, the narrator catches sight of a woodchuck and is "strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for the wildness which he represented" (^210). "I found in myself, and still find," he adds, "an instinct... | |
| Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 страници
...1:219, 228. caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour...then, except for that wildness which he represented." Of course, this opening is something of a rhetorical trick. Thoreau is making the point that human... | |
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