A little instruction in the elements of chartography--a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topograp...hical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map--would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In night when colours all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light;... The eye--a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having power of sight-- Gives vain alarums to the inward senseLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of th...e journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I take your arms boldly, each day a new excursion.... Come, my sister, we are two virgins, our lives once more perfected and unused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here in the country it is only a few idle boys or loafers that go a-fishing on a rainy day; but there it appeared as if every able...-bodied man and helpful boy in the Bay had gone out on a pleasure excursion in their yachts, and all would at last land and have a chowder on the Cape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all ...this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this p...urpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I read a part of the story of my excursion to Ktaadn to quite a large audience of men and boys, the other night, whom it intereste...d. It contains many facts and some poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ...ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »