 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
 | J. D. McClatchy - 1990 - 362 pages
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 | William A. Dyrness - 1989 - 184 pages
...Americans' fundamental attachment to the natural. In his famous essay on "Nature," Emerson rhapsodizes: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria . . . broad noon shall be my England" (Essays, 43). We have no need of these traditions; we may find... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...the need for libraries, histories, Europes, that "broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." (The ulterior effect of this is dialectical at another level. The whole passage is about how, just... | |
 | Guy L. Rotella - 1991 - 280 pages
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 | Deepak Chopra - 1991 - 228 pages
...invincible. It should be so perfect that nothing better can be imagined and nothing worse can touch it. "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." This comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who aimed for exuberant vitality in everything. No one else has... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1992 - 178 pages
..."Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In Nature he had said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." When I first read the ensuing summary of how Emerson proposed (as Thoreau will put it in Walden) to... | |
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