Log Search Results

18 December 1850.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal on 19 December:

  Yesterday I tracked a partridge in the new-fallen snow, till I came to where she took flight, and I could track her no further (Journal, 2:126).

Boston, Mass. The records of the Boston Society of Natural History indicate: “Mr. Henry D. Thoreau of Concord, Mass. was elected a Corresponding member” (Thoreau Society Bulletin, 73 (Fall 1960):5).

18 December 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Annursnack.

  Sedum Telephium, garden orpine or live-for-ever; I think this is the plant with a sort of pineapple-leaved and sheathed bulbs, on a rock between Cox’s and Heywood’s . . .

(Journal, 4:430-431)
18 December 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Clears off cold after rain.

  Cross Fair Haven Pond at sunset. The western hills, these bordering it, seen through the clear, cold air, have a hard, distinct edge against the sunset sky. The distant hills are impurpled . . .

(Journal, 6:20)
18 December 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Down railroad via Andromeda Ponds to river . . . (Journal, 7:84).
18 December 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Saw to-day a dark-colored spider of the very largest kind on ice,—the mill-pond at E. Wood’s in Acton . . . (Journal, 8:52-53).
18 December 1856. Amherst, N.H.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  12 M. Start for Amherst, N.H.

  A very cold day. Thermometer at 8 A.M. -8° (and I hear of others very much lower at an earlier hour), -2° at 11.45.

  I find the first beyond Littleton, snow enough to whiten the ground and it deepens all the way to Amherst. The steam of the engine hugs the earth very close. Is it because it [is] a very clear, cold day? . . .

  At my lecture, the audience attended to me closely, and I was satisfied; that is all I ask or expect generally. Not one spoke to me afterward, nor needed they. I have no doubt that they liked it, in the main, though few of them would have dared say so, provided they were conscious of it. Generally, if I can only get the ears of an audience, I do not care whether they say they like my lecture or not. I think I know as well as they can tell. At any rate, it is none of my business, and it would be impertinent for me to inquire. The stupidity of most of these country towns, not to include is in its innocence infantile. Lectured in (vestry) of the orthodox church . . .

(Journal, 9:186-188)

Thoreau lectures on “Walking, or the Wild” in Amherst, N.H. The following advertisement appeared in the Amherst Farmer’s Cabinet:

AMHERST LYCEUM!
 Lecture Dec 18th, by HENRY D. THOREAU, Esq., of Concord, Mass.—SUBJECT “Getting a Living.”

18 December 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Walden . . . Minott tells how he used to love to walk through swamps where great white pines grew and hear the wind sough in their tops . . . (Journal, 11:373-374).
18 December 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Rains.

  P.M.—To Assabet opposite Tarbell’s, via Abel Hosmer’s . . .

  The thick, low cloud or mist makes novel prospects for us. In the southwest horizon I see a darker mass of it stretched along, seen against itself . . . (Journal, 13:33-34).

18 February 1838. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I had not been out long this morning when it seemed that a new Spring was already born,—not quite weaned, it is true, but verily entered upon existence (Journal, 1:29).
18 February 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  All romance is grounded on friendship. What is this rural,this pastoral, this poetical life but its invention? Does not the moon shine for Endymion? Smooth pastures and mild airs are for some Corydon and Phyllis. Paradise belongs to Adam and Eve. Plato’s republic is governed by Platonic love.
(Journal, 1:121)

Return to the Log Index

Donation

$