 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
 | James Stormonth - 1876 - 194 pages
...cares and passions that infest human life. " 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. Face all things ; even Adversity is polite to a man's face. Necessity is the mother of invention, but... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 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 of emperors ridiculous. Tlie dawn is iny Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
 | David Thomas - 1877 - 492 pages
...in what we presently do with it and ultimately make of it ! A beautiful thing is healthful life. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of kings and emperors ridiculous! " exclaims a great living author, who knows to rapturous realization,... | |
 | 1879 - 512 pages
...emperors ridiculous. The dawn shall be my Assyria ; moonrise and sunset my Paphos, and unimaginable realm of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England, of the senses and the understanding; and night shall be my Germany, of mystic philosophy and dreams." When out for a ramble of a fine day,... | |
 | 1879 - 516 pages
...emperors ridiculous. The dawn shall be my Assyria ; moon rise and sunset my Paphos, and unimaginable realm of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England, of the senses and the understanding ; and night shall be my Germany, of mystic philosophy and dreams." When out for a ramble of a fine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 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,... | |
 | 1880 - 672 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." Colder people will think this an outburst of the riotous blood of youth ; yet it is only in Shakespeare... | |
 | 1880 - 982 pages
...slow barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moouriso my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall bo my England of the senses... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1880 - 974 pages
...barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "aud I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moourise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses... | |
 | 1907 - 700 pages
...future, the " Uebermensch," then an education must mean also the sedulous cultivation of health. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But more important, perhaps, than information, accuracy, and health is the cultivation of that love... | |
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