 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 - 1876 - 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...the senses and the understanding; the night shall ba my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1884 - 840 pages
...dilate nnd 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...: broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding ; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Not less excellent,... | |
 | 1884 - 668 pages
...and by this intimacy with the fair aspects of creation. " Give me health and a day," says Emerson, " and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The...; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding ; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." III. The ministry of... | |
 | Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - 720 pages
...and by this intimacy with the fair aspects of creation. " Give me health and a day," says Emerson, " and I will make the pomp of emperors 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... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1884 - 410 pages
...yet unknown to fame, with scant means and a doubtful future : " Almost I fear to think how glad I am. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." This from Charles Lamb, who had had his full share of mortal woe : — " I am in love with this green... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 pages
...heart So 63. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and 1 will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; .... broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 pages
...breezes " ; and again, " Hawthorne rides well his horse of the night." As he spoke, so he wrote: " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous " ; " The conscious ship hears all the praise "; of young idealists, "The tough world had its revenge the moment... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 554 pages
...breezes " ; and again, " Hawthorne rides well his horse of the night." As he spoke, so he wrote : " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous " ; " The conscious ship hears all the praise " ; of young idealists, "The tough world had its revenge the moment... | |
 | 1885 - 906 pages
...tJte 'umitingtable, adding a few sentences to a letter to Miss Isabel Lee, which his wife had begun. "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Health ind a day ! This is what Mr. Emerson says in that rhapsody on Nature, which I still think his... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 488 pages
...pleasures, innocent and pure, of common things which round us lie. Mr. Emerson said in his first book: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos and fairy-realm ; broad noon my England of the senses and understanding ; the night shall be my Germany... | |
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