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" In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. "
Initial Studies in American Letters - Page 235
by Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 282 pages
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune,...Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 16

1848 - 636 pages
...our poet-philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special 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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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...virtue. 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. 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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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...virtue. 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 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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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...our poet philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence 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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Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune,...Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune,...Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand...
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The Living Authors of America: 1st ser

Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...virtue. 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 ; almost I fear to think how glad I am." As a companion to this moral of self-revelation, we give :...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...virtue. 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. 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 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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