 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
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 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...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 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...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am.o In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his... | |
 | American Academy of Medicine - 1907 - 550 pages
...Thoreau thought, the student of nature will willingly listen to the following words: "In the woods a man casts off his years as the snake his slough, and at what period of life soever, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God... | |
 | 1907 - 384 pages
...and moods, or even in presence of great Art. Says Emerson, in Nature : " Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." No doubt most of us have had this feeling, mingled with somewhat of a solemn awe which is greater than... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1912 - 392 pages
...with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land. SCOTT. XXXVIII IN AND INTO Memorize : In the woods a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,...is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. EMERSON. Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell, Rode the six hundred. TENNYSON. Notice in... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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...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... | |
 | Ada Van Stone Harris, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1912 - 384 pages
...SCOTT. xxxvm DT AND ESTO Memorize: In the woods a man casts off his years, as the snake his sloogh, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. EMEBSOX. Into the jaws of death. Into the mouth of hell, Bode the six hundred. TKJTXTSOX. Notice in... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1915 - 556 pages
...Nature " should be read by any who would first see and then describe. " Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration." Form and dimension. Form and dimension are aspects of the same subject matter which may be described... | |
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