 In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed,...  Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a Tale - Page 211by Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 353 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson - 1998 - 716 pages
...woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake h1s slough, and at what period soever of life, 1s always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth....of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 pages
...enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...age" and into the perpetual, the perennial, and the millennial. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the... | |
 | Richard G. Geldard - 2000 - 180 pages
...opportunity for conscious reflection. Emerson said in Nature, In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the... | |
 | Marlies Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2000 - 342 pages
...infancy" of the poet there is also a physical rejuvenation: "In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth" (2). Nature, Emerson writes, can repair everything and can provide one with a rebirth or a return to... | |
 | Kathleen Bajorek DeBettencourt - 2000 - 240 pages
...world: In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period so ever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth... In the woods, we return to reason and faith. Emerson's younger colleague Henry David Thoreau is best... | |
 | Richard E. Mezo - 2001 - 240 pages
...enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his fly on the instant, but as I remained as festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the... | |
 | Katalin G. Kállay - 2003 - 178 pages
...enthusiastic and elevated feeling of becoming one with the Universe: "In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period...soever of life, is always a child. [...] In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity,... | |
 | Richard E. Wentz - 476 pages
...tradition, and a religion of revelation to us . . . why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? ... In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the... | |
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