 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
 | William James - 2000 - 404 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."10 Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities.... | |
 | Marlies Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2000 - 342 pages
...available to the poet in the most rude and ordinary things: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration" (2). Every hour of the day and night and every season, from the bleakest days of February to the endless... | |
 | John Conron - 2010 - 484 pages
...sketch of an experience of transparency on Concord Common. "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed myself to perfect exhilaration." The exhilaration seems to arise from a trompe I'oeil effect: the congruence... | |
 | Kathleen Bajorek DeBettencourt - 2000 - 240 pages
...poet. In Emerson's first book, Nature, he speaks of finding beauty and wisdom in the natural 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... | |
 | Alton L Becker, Alton L. Becker - 2000 - 460 pages
...Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. The first thing to do when studying a sentence like that is to memorize it, just as a pianist studying... | |
 | Richard E. Mezo - 2001 - 240 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,... | |
 | Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 pages
...transcendence in this well-known passage from his essay "Nature": "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, 1 have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration."15 Citing this and other like episodes, James asks, "in what... | |
 | William James - 2001 - 178 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...my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, 1 have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." Life is always worth living,... | |
 | Dean Grodzins - 2002 - 664 pages
...Nature, describes his own religious experience as ecstatic: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." By contrast, Parker, in the Discourse, describes the "sense of dependence": "A few years ago, and we... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, lso, when they came down to wash or drink. In a few...alighted on the stone beside me, within reach of 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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