 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
 | 1848
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, 1 have enjoyed a perfect ezhileration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 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...of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhiliration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1848
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet-philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we shall make from the Essay on " Nature,"... | |
 | 1848
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my...of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhileration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we shall make from the essay... | |
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 365 pages
...characteristic. '\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." As a companion to this moral of self-revelation, we give :... | |
 | 1849
...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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1851
...influence of the woods ; and the oftener we go, the more kindly is their encouragement. " 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... | |
 | Stephen Henry Ward - 1853 - 412 pages
...from whom I have just quoted, " the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost, I fear to think how glad I am." The peripatetic is enabled not only to enjoy the broader effects... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854
...worst, " Vivo equidem, vitamque extrema per omnia duco ยง." " In the woods," says a living writer, " a man casts off his years as the snake his slough,...always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth." In this respect, then, the forest truly represents the scene through which wander those who by the... | |
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