Henry David Thoreau

Name: Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Author: Henry David Thoreau

Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

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“Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn”, published in 1905, is a work by Henry David Thoreau. It explores elements such as Ralegh, scrap and essay.

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ The editors of Thoreau's dozen volumes should have had this scrap-book before them when seeking the source of the quotations in which he so abounds.
Let us not seek to overvalue this treasure-trove of an author to whom each successive year brings a new army of readers, and of whom every reader becomes a warm admirer. It is not a finished piece of English like many of his essays ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ Stowe at Newton, many years since, that he had never read the verses ascribed to Ralegh. Nobody now reads the History of the World,—probably Thoreau was its latest American reader, except those whom some historical task required them to go through with it. He was also the last reader of Davenant's Gondibert, upon which many an adventurous youth has been stranded. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ These rumors of wars make me wish that we had got done with this brutal stupidity of war altogether; and I believe, Thoreau, that the human race will at last get rid of it, though, perhaps, not in a creditable way ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ It belongs, rather, with that collection of literary essays with which the bulk of his narrative of The Week is so increased, and its qualities so much enriched. But it shows how early his profound conceptions got a striking expression, and how even earlier his far-reaching judgments on men and things entitled him to the name of scholar and sage. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ So peace may be begotten from the machinations of evil."
Lord Dundonald, who had fought by sea for the South Americans and the Greeks, was a good sample of a modern Ralegh; but he would not have aroused in Thoreau the interest which he had felt in Ralegh. It was the literary as well as the knightly quality in the Elizabethan that attracted the Concord man of letters; and the burden of this long-lost essay will be found to be chiefly literary. Ralegh, like his friends, Sidney and Spenser, is one of the romantic figures in English literature more admired than read in these later days ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ Few youths of New England ever exhibited sooner in life, or practised more seriously and effectively, the arts and gifts that produce works of permanent literary value. Such is every completed essay of Thoreau that I have seen ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ The Silent Lover is thought to have been sent to Elizabeth; the Walsingham verses, which Thoreau thought characteristic of Ralegh, do not seem so to me, and Hannah says, "I think it very improbable that Ralegh wrote this ballad." ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ What a relief to have heard the ring of one healthy, reserved tone." This satirical tone is seldom found in the essay on Ralegh, which, like most of the essays and verses before 1845 are in a serious and often paradoxical spirit, suggesting laughter only by their extravagance, which the young author did not seem to perceive. ”

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Henry David Thoreau, Sir Walter Raleigh — Introduction by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1905)

“ One such, Henry C. Wright, an aggressive non-resistant, was specially satirized by him in his Journal for June 17, 1853,—the anniversary of Bunker Hill battle, and perhaps chosen on that account to make a demon stration against war in Concord, whose chief reputation had once been that it opened the war of the Revolution. ”

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