...pleasures, innocent and pure, of common things which round us lie. Mr. Emerson said in his first book: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos and fairy-realm ; broad noon my England of the senses and understanding ; the night shall be my Germany...

...tissues at once, let us consider for a moment what health really is. It was Emerson, I think, who said, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a deal of truth underlying that sentence. To put it in my own homely way : if a young inau,...

.... . . Self-command is the main elegance. 'Keep cool, and you command everybody,' said St. Just." " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." " No man can be a master in conversation who has not learned much from women ; their presence and inspiration...

...I am too flush and free, — To lavish all on thee ! Wilt thou atone, To-morrow ? SONNETS. TO-DAY. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — EMERSON. How rich am I to whom the Orient sends Such gifts as yonder fair and liberal Day, Whose...

...with." " Yes, I know the little book, and I have thought two or three times to-day of his sentences. ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous,' was in my mind as we rode up. ' The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos ; and unimaginable...

...terse and telling way he has, which is all his own, of presenting and fixing the idea that he utters. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." " The moment discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted...

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...transformations: the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset...

...their counterparts in the brightest hopes and the saddest sorrows of the human spirit. Emerson says, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding ; the night shall be my Germany...

...convincingly admonish them, with point of arrow, that they have * 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. nothing to do with our laws but to obey them. Is it not written that the fat ribs...