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" 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. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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English Lessons: Book One-two, Book 2

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...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

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...
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English Lessons: Book One-two, Book 2

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...
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Principles of Composition

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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The Life of Reality

John Herman Randall - 1916 - 376 pages
...possessed from earliest youth. In his essay on "Nature" we find these words: "Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. All mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all ; the currents of...
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Preacher and Homiletic Monthly, Volume 78

1919 - 594 pages
...For God is not far from each one of us. Emerson put it thus: "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." There are many things which should be emphasized in these difficult...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 pages
...smile. Nature. 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...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. Ibid. ROSES and violets renew their race like oaks, and flights of painted moths are as old as the...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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...snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, always is a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and...
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Present-day Essays

Edwin Van Berghen Knickerbocker - 1923 - 384 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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Appalachia, Volume 15, Issues 3-4

Charles E. Fay, J. Rayner Edmands - 1923 - 398 pages
...Sage of Concord tells us that in the Woods — "A man casts oft his years, as the snake his sluff, and at what period soever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth." The wise Appalachian avails himself of the benefit of this Rejuvenescence (delectable word), but does...
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