Henry David Thoreau Eras Quotations

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.