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" Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. "
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes - Page 8
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13

1848 - 614 pages
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, 1 have enjoyed a perfect ezhileration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhiliration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow-puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years as the snake his...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet-philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we shall make from the Essay on " Nature,"...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my...of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhileration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we shall make from the essay...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his...
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The Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - 1850 - 380 pages
...Nature is very characteristic. \In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a,...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration ; almost I fear to think how glad I am." As a companion to this moral of self-revelation, we give :...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...influence of the woods ; and the oftener we go, the more kindly is their encouragement. " In the woods a man casts off his years as the snake his slough ; and at whatever period of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations...
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The Science of Health

Stephen Henry Ward - 1853 - 432 pages
...from whom I have just quoted, " the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost, I fear to think how glad I am." The peripatetic is enabled not only to enjoy the broader effects...
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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Book 7

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...worst, " Vivo equidem, vitamque extrema per omnia duco ยง." " In the woods," says a living writer, " a man casts off his years as the snake his slough,...always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth." In this respect, then, the forest truly represents the scene through which wander those who by the...
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