Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall... Miscellanies - Page 6by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 321 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1836 - 444 pages
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| 1838 - 540 pages
...find out those wants, which the commodity of Nature supplies. " Give me health and a day," he says, " and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The...; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." If this subjection of... | |
| 1844 - 638 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ? Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of fairie; broad noon shall be my England of senses and... | |
| 1844 - 648 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ? Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of fairie ; broad noon shall be my England of senses and... | |
| 1848 - 614 pages
...morning wind. How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and IwiU make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moonrine ray 1 ' >. phos, and unimaginable realms of faerie." Mr. Emerson has published a volume of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music. The inhabitants... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...describing a sunrise he concludes thus: " How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements 1 Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams!" We cannot disguise the fact, that on a first perusal, Emerson offers many difficulties. His writings... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...dilate and .conspire with the morning wind. How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable .realms of faerie." Mr. Emerson has published a volume of poems, and it has been generally admitted that he has not .succeeded... | |
| 1848 - 916 pages
...Diogenes about him, when he says, in the very poetry of contentment, " Give me health and a day, and 1 will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn...and unimaginable realms of Faerie : broad noon shall bo my Eng-land of the senses and the understanding ; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy... | |
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