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
| Graham Clarke - 1993 - 488 pages
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| John Dolis - 1993 - 296 pages
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| Lawrence Buell - 1993 - 236 pages
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| Gordon Abbott - 1993 - 364 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...[breathe in unison] 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. The dawn is my Assyria [power]; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos [myth], and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall... | |
| Gerry Spence - 1997 - 452 pages
...he had worked his way back to life. To live is work, but my father would have agreed with Emerson: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Nearly forty years before, in 1954, my father had been hunting white-tailed deer in the Black Hills... | |
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