 I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Page 20by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 638 pages
...sea of crimson light. From the earth as a shore I look out into that silent .sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations: the active enchantment...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
...sea of crimson light. From the earth as a shore I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment...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
...earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations ; tbe active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and...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 '... | |
 | 1848 - 636 pages
...of crimson light. From •the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations ; the active enchantment...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... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...sea of crimson light. From the earth as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment...elements ? Give me health and a day, and I will make the wimp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon-rise my Faphos, and unimaginable... | |
 | Alexis Soyer - 1851 - 498 pages
...envy the man who is thirsty and has a bottle of this same beverage within reach. Emerson has said, ' Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.* Give us thirst and a bottle of Soyer's Nectar, say we, and we will laugh to scorn the cup of Hebe.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...sea of crimson light From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment...emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sun-«et and mo<>i]-ri«e my Paphos, und unimaginable realms of fuerie ; broad noon shall be my Lugland... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 pages
...of crimson light From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake ite rapid transformations: the active enchantment reaches...elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pump of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations: the active enchantment...and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How docs Mature deify us with a few and cheap elemental Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp... | |
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