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" Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall... "
An Emerson Calendar - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pages
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Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities

Edwin Waugh - 1857 - 256 pages
...significance of what the philosophic Emerson says, relative to the influence of nature's beauty:—" Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of iUi-ric; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my...
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Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Issue 51

Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1897 - 844 pages
...and good until our eyes and minds are weary and then go forth to commune with nature. Emerson says, "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." The freshness and beau'.y of the morning, the splendor of the noon and the glory of the dying day are ours....
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...interpret for us the passage of our great poet : " How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." And we cannot better close these pages on the privilege of sight in a village like North Conway than...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...interpret for us the passage of our great poet : " How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." And we cannot better close these pages on the privilege of sight in a village like North Conway than...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon -rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses...
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Peculiar: A Tale of the Great Transition, Volume 1

Epes Sargent - 1864 - 508 pages
...-that drew from Emerson that note, we can all respond to, in our higher moments of intenser life, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." With Kenrick, even to his blindness there came a sense of the beauty and the glow. He could enjoy the...
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Peculiar. Ed. by W. Howitt. Authorized ed, Volume 3

Epes Sargent - 1864 - 332 pages
...this that drew from Emerson that note we can all respond to, in our higher moments of intenser life, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." With Kenrick, even to his blindness there came a sense of the beauty and the glow. He could enjoy the...
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Orations, Lectures and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, last evening,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, last evening,...
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Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L ..., Volume 2; Volume 86

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elemente! Give me health amV a day, and 1 will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Xot less excellent, except for our lese susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, lust evening,...
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