 | Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 260 pages
...thoughts objective or prospective, and healthier in their tone. Indeed, Emerson well observes that " we go out daily and nightly to feed the eye on the...so much scope, just as we need water for our bath." " The blue zenith," he adds, " is the point in which romance and reality meet."* * Following this is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes pn the horizon, and require so much scope, just as Ave need water for our bath. There are all degrees of...for safety, — and there is the sublime moral of antumn and of noon. We nestle in nature, and draw our living as parasites from her roots and grains,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 240 pages
...We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as \ve need water for our bath. There are all degrees of...water from the spring, the wood-fire to which the dulled traveller rushes for safety, — and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon. We nestle... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...nonsense. Cities give A1not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath. There are all degrees of,natural influence, from these quarantine powers of nature, up toiler dearest and gravest ministrations... | |
 | 1881 - 520 pages
...prospective, and healthier in their tone." Emerson must have had the same idea in his mind when he wrote : " We go out daily and nightly to feed the eye on the...so much scope, just as we need water for our bath. . . . The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet." In contradiction of this idea... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...nonsense. Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as...dearest and gravest ministrations to the imagination ahd the soul. There is the bucket of cold water from the spring, the wood-fire to which the chilled... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...nonsense. Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as...There is the bucket of cold water from the spring, the wood fire to which the chilled traveler rushes for safety, — and there is the sublime moral of autumn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 326 pages
...nonsense. Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as...cold water from the spring, the wood-fire to which the_ chilled traveller rushes for safety, — and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon.... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 448 pages
...nonsense. Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as...from the spring, the wood-fire to which the chilled traveler rushes for safety, — and there is the sublime moral of autumn and of noon. We nestle in... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 272 pages
...nonsense. Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go 15 out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as...dearest and gravest ministrations to the imagination and 20 the soul. There is the bucket of cold water from the spring, the wood-fire to which the chilled... | |
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Ever an old friend, ever like a dear friend and brother, when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face, and takes a grave liberty with us, and shames us out of our nonsense. Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily... 
