 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...your Rome, your world? What do you bring to that place where you stand? Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake its slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2004 - 428 pages
...wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.... In the woods, too, a man casts offhis years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.... In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no... | |
 | John Gatta - 2004 - 304 pages
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 | Central European Pragmatist Forum. Conference - 2004 - 286 pages
...senses, the imagination in Kantian terminology, can still be overwhelmed: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky. without having in my thoughts any occurrences of special good fortune. 1 have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...broken every several inch of the old wooden hoop will still hold us staunch. 5 Crossing a bare common in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. It seems that we are in debt to Emerson for the concept of the Establishment and its opponents. There... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...cite the familiar preamble to the epiphany of the transparent eyeball: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear" (E&L 1 0) . Weisbuch's commentary, from its opening rhetorical question to its sweeping but completely... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 322 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, if one have such responsive sensibilities. But we of the highly educated... | |
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