| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...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 my thoughts...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,... | |
| 1848 - 614 pages
...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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 my thoughts...at what period soever of life, is always a child. ]n the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reisjn ; a... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...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...exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we shall make from the Essay on " Nature," shall be one where he treats of this... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...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...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 my thoughts...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...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 my thoughts...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...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 my thoughts...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...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 my thoughts...exhilaration ; almost I fear to think how glad I am." As a companion to this moral of self-revelation, we give : — " Nature always wears the colors of... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...manhood." The following description of his own feelings in the presence of Nature is very characteristic. of special 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 : — "Nature always wears the colors of the... | |
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