晨讀英語美文100篇六級On Going a Journey

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.32]Passage 98 On Going a Journey [00:07.35]One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey: [00:12.71]but I like to go by myself. [00:15.52]I can enjoy society in a room; [00:18.91]but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. [00:23.94]I am then never less alone than when alone. [00:28.55]“The fields his study, nature was his book.” [00:32.81]I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. [00:38.39]When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. [00:43.86]I am not for criticizing hedges and black cattle. [00:48.02]I go out for town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. [00:54.04]There are those who for this purpose go to watering places, [00:59.06]and carry the metropolis with them. [01:01.81]I like more space and fewer obstacles. [01:06.29]I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude; nor do I ask for [01:15.04]“a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.” [01:21.27]The soul of journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases. [01:31.45]We go a journey chiefly to be free of all obstacles and all inconveniences; [01:38.78]to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. [01:44.26]It is because I want a little breathing space to ponder on indifferent matters, where contemplation [01:52.46]“May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, [01:57.17]that in the various bustle of resort were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired.” [02:03.84]I absent myself from the town for a while, without feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself. [02:12.92]Instead of a friend in a post chaise or in a carriage, to exchange good things with, [02:20.91]and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a time free from manners. [02:29.55]Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, [02:35.67]a winding road before me, and the three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! [02:43.01]It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. [02:48.48]I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy! [02:52.63]From the point of yonder rolling cloud I plunge into my past being, [02:58.43]and revel there as the sun-burnt Indian plunges headlong into the wave [03:04.02]that wafts him to his native shore. [03:06.64]Then long-forgotten things like “sunken wrack and sumless treasuries,” [03:12.99]burst upon my eager sight, and I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. [03:21.74]Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull commonplaces, [03:30.05]mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

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