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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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Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum ...

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...
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A Year with Emerson

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...
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Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All ...

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...
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Pragmatism, Volume 3

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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The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson

Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 pages
...as an adult said, quite in the spirit of the passage quoted from Hudson: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to...
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American Poetry: Whitman to the Present

Robert Rehder, Patrick Vincent - 2006 - 252 pages
...experiences, but experiences dealing mostly with nature or natural phenomenon. "Crossing a barren common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration" (Emerson, Nature 6). Nature is something one may "do," a piece of divinity transferable to the poet,...
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Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero

Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...adjusted to each other; who has retained the . . . spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the...always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. 65 "The woods," or nature in general, became for Emerson synonymous with his own feminine self, which,...
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Through Lover's Lane: L.M. Montgomery's Photography and Visual Imagination

Elizabeth R. Epperly - 2007 - 241 pages
...adjusted to each other' (5-6), this lover will find a perpetual benediction. In the woods, Emerson says, 'a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,...is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth' (5-6). Emerson talks of the 'plastic power of the human eye' and concludes that 'The eye is the best...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman

M. Jimmie Killingsworth - 2007 - 123 pages
...in the famous "transparent eyeball" passage from Nature. Walking across a bare common, he says, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration ... I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; I am part or parcel of God." In the process...
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Edinburgh Days: Or, Doing what I Want to Do

Sam Pickering - 2007 - 220 pages
...the spirit, and suddenly one hears whistling and realizes life is a gift. "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration," Ralph Waldo Emerson reported in "Nature." I travel widely in books, practically every day roaming the...
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