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
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...mourning piece. In good health the air is a cordial of incredible value. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough. In the woods is perpetual youth.... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twi-j light, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...cordial of ineredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a elouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfeet exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man easts off his years,... | |
| Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1883 - 380 pages
...carried thither, that when he would pursue them unbrokenly he was fain to stay at home. " 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man caste off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snowpuddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In I he woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,... | |
| 1885 - 906 pages
...moonlight, we perceived a solitary figure • "Сroмшк a hare common in enow-puddles »t twffight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts...occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfeet exhilaration, almost, I fear, to think how glad I am." — " Nature : an Essay," by EW Emerson,... | |
| 1945 - 964 pages
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| 1896 - 390 pages
...possessed us after some stay in a. forest. Emerson speaks of this inspiration thus: " In the woods a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,...at what period soever of life, is always a child." (Nature, Chapter I.) The imaginative quality of the word centers in this element. The lower line should... | |
| Joseph Forster - 1890 - 192 pages
...mourning piece. In good health the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts an occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think... | |
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