 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 - 1893 - 168 pages
...perceptions. MARCH. 1TJit wind smvs the seed. March First. Crossing a bare common in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect ex hilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. March Second. A gentleman makes no noise: a lady is... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...— Horsley. _ A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open. — Fieldiny. WOODS. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, anil, at what ):criod soever of life, is always n child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 264 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,... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 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,... | |
 | William James - 1899 - 328 pages
...life-currents absorbed by what is given. " Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "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." Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 386 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,... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 330 pages
...life-currents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "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." Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities.... | |
 | William James - 1900 - 106 pages
...its TiFecurrents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "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." Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 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,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 532 pages
...a cordial of inestimable value. Crossing a bare common in snow-puddles, at twilight, under a cloudy sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of... | |
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