 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...  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page ixby Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 pages
...transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements...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,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements I 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,... | |
 | Donald M. McAllister - 1982 - 324 pages
...and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.17 Environmental Values to the Dial, a transcendental periodical that both he and Emerson... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 pages
...the development of such an elaborate map of consciousness in Emerson's suggestion in "Nature" that "the dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams" (Works 1:17). But to use Patterson's phrase, Dickinson was a "naive symbolist" who based her myths... | |
 | Joshua C. Taylor - 1987 - 580 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,... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...durchlaufenen Kultur- und Bewußtseinsformen: The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Pathos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the sense and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. (p. 13)... | |
 | 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... | |
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