 | 1893 - 932 pages
...air for itself, and are contented with it. How many of us revel in that joyous cry of Emerson, •• Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous " ! This sweet, fresh renewal that comes from contact with nature is felt even by people who have little... | |
 | 1894 - 384 pages
...however, between the Reason and the Understanding is not difficult to discern. When Emerson says, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The Dawn shall be my Assyria and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad Noon shall be my England of the Senses... | |
 | Charles Gordon Ames - 1894 - 124 pages
...and time, within these limitations of sense, are conditions of everything else. Emerson exclaims : " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." What can we do with health and a day? We can live, consciously or unconsciously, in infinite space... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 pages
...ranges over her clear horizons, and lie leaps up elastic under her light atmosphere, exclaiming, " Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Carlyle is a 43 half-Germanised Scotchman, living near the roar of the metropolis, with thoughts of... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1895 - 368 pages
...excommunicate our enemies from venison and brawn, and by 'r 1 'How does Nature deify us with a few cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.' EMERSON. — G. 82 Lady, when need calls, beat them down under my feet ? The State levies tax ; and... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1895 - 380 pages
...excommunicate our enemies from venison and brawn, and by 'r 1 ' How does Nature deify us with a few cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.' EMEKSON.—G. Lady, when need calls, beat them down under my feet ? The State levies tax; and the Church... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...theological dogma, toward everything that would hamper and limit him. It shines in his famous boast : — "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a glint of it in this passage, which might have been written to comfort John Brown, or reassure... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 pages
...theological dogma, toward everything that would hamper and limit him. It shines in his famous boast : — "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a glint of it in this passage, which might have been written to comfort John Brown, or reassure... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1895 - 398 pages
...my crust there, and drinking my glass of wine, I have often thought of the words of Emerson, — ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of Emperors ridiculous.' On one occasion especially, when the guns were thundering in France in honour of Louis Napoleon, I... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 pages
...theological dogma, toward everything that would hamper and limit him. It shines in his famous boast: — " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a glint of it in this passage, which might have been written to comfort John Brown, or reassure... | |
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. 
