 Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 196by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs,...good fortune, I have 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,... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...piece. In good health the air is a cordial of incredible value. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough. In the woods is perpetual youth.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 pages
...presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, — he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs,...good fortune, I have 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have 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,... | |
 | RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 428 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, hi snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...cordial of ineredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a elouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfeet exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man easts off his years,... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1883 - 380 pages
...carried thither, that when he would pursue them unbrokenly he was fain to stay at home. " In the woods a man casts off his years as the snake his slough ; and at whatever period of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. 'Within these plantations... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have 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,... | |
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