 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 45by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 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...unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be rny England of the senses and the understanding ; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
...expecting a very long life. I feel an insuperable longing to enjoy myself for a few months. Emerson says, 'Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp and luxury of emperors and kings ridiculous.' For ' health,' alas ! I have not much to hope, and so... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...ranges freely over her clear horizons, and he leaps up elastic under her light atmosphere, exclaiming, ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.' Carlyle is a Germanized Scotsman, living near the roar of our great metropolis, with memories of Weimar... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1869 - 334 pages
...Heywood. Its images never return to my memory but I wish to hold them there awhile. Emerson says: — "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." If men had their eyes open to the beauties and uses of those elements which are open to all alike,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...dilate and , conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us 1 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,... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 256 pages
...things : We murder to dissect. WOKDSWORTH. How does Nature deify U3 with a few and cheap elements J Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. EMERSON. WHEN up some woodland dale we catch The many-twinkling smile of ocean, Or with pleased ear... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 376 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. The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 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...and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of fteiie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1917 - 592 pages
...plain living. But it was also a life of high thinking and rich enjoyment of what each day brought. "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous!" said the sage of Concord. So it was with little Alice Freeman. As she picked wild strawberries on the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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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