id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kxkrvr6exrgcvi6mcvzee7y7ki Ramona Simut Death as Surprise in 18th and 19th Centuries Romanticism 2012.0 6 .pdf application/pdf 5966 544 66 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were surrounded by consumption (tuberculosis) all times in his life, once writing of having a mouse gnawing at his chest, but died of an unrelated illness at age 79." See Constance ManoliSkocay, "A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord." The Concord Magazine (Winter 2003). her death in 1850 was caused by a shift in the natural order, by something which should never happen to man. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), a Harvard fellow himself, lived the life of a Romantic both in terms of his expenditures 16 See Alfred I.Tauber, Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Berkeley, CA:University of California Press, 2001)145. Richardson, Henry Thoreau: a life of the mind (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986), 15. Richardson, Henry Thoreau: a life of the mind (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986), 15. ./cache/work_kxkrvr6exrgcvi6mcvzee7y7ki.pdf ./txt/work_kxkrvr6exrgcvi6mcvzee7y7ki.txt