Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thoreau” in chapter 6 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:

... on their trail. Precisely what he meant it is now impossible to say, but surely he betrays a doubt in the ultimate efficacy of his own system of life. He bends doggedly to the trail, for Henry Thoreau is no quitter, but the trail leads nowhere, and in the latest volumes of the he seems to realize that he has been pursuing a phantom. He dived fearlessly and deep into himself, but somehow he fail...
Max. Freq. Min. Freq.
Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Henry Thoreau 194 42 0 0 0 user votes
Henry David Thoreau 150 0 0 0 0 user votes
Thoreau 142 0 0 0 0 user votes
Henry D. Thoreau 117 29 1 1 0 user votes
H. D. Thoreau 60 16 0 0 0 user votes
Miss Thoreau 34 0 0 0 0 user votes
David Henry Thoreau 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Helen Thoreau 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
John Thoreau 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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