 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. I am glad to the brink of fear.  Works - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Bart Eeckhout - 2002 - 317 pages
...Bates, Mythology of Self, 132; and Bevis, Mind of Winter, 43ff. 65. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 9-10. my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,... | |
 | Vincent Michael Colapietro - 2003 - 348 pages
...Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. . . . Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear" (Emerson 1982, 38). Like Emerson, Miller realizes: "One cannot call one's soul one's own if one cannot... | |
 | Joan Delaney Grossman, Ruth Rischin - 2003 - 276 pages
...grasped, to have its life-currents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." Life is always worth living [James comments] if one have such responsive sensibilities. ("On a Certain... | |
 | Katalin G. Kállay - 2003 - 178 pages
...eye-ball" in Nature, describing the enthusiastic and elevated feeling of becoming one with the Universe: "In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the...soever of life, is always a child. [...] In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity,... | |
 | 2003 - 92 pages
...SPRING ASPENS, ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST AUTUMN OAKS AND PONDEROSA PINES, CASTLE PINES, DOUGLAS COUNTY In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period so ever of life is always a child. — Ralph Waldo Emerson CONIFERS ALONG THE WEST DOLORES RIVER, SAN... | |
 | David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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 | Karen Gallas - 2003 - 196 pages
...perceived and wondered at the immensity of creation. Emerson (1849/1983) writes: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear Standing on 34... | |
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