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 Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 476 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... | |
| Gordon Stables - 1886 - 398 pages
...tissues at once, let us consider for a moment what health really is. It was Emerson, I think, who said, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a deal of truth underlying that sentence. To put it in my own homely way : if a young inau,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 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,... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pages
.... . . Self-command is the main elegance. 'Keep cool, and you command everybody,' said St. Just." " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." " No man can be a master in conversation who has not learned much from women ; their presence and inspiration... | |
| Edith Matilda Thomas - 1887 - 152 pages
...I am too flush and free, — To lavish all on thee ! Wilt thou atone, To-morrow ? SONNETS. TO-DAY. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — EMERSON. How rich am I to whom the Orient sends Such gifts as yonder fair and liberal Day, Whose... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 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 presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection. The... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morni ng wi nd. 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 presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection. The... | |
| 1889 - 92 pages
...transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moonrise my...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... | |
| Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1889 - 324 pages
...with." " Yes, I know the little book, and I have thought two or three times to-day of his sentences. ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous,' was in my mind as we rode up. ' The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos ; and unimaginable... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 pages
...terse and telling way he has, which is all his own, of presenting and fixing the idea that he utters. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." " The moment discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted... | |
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