 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
 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...authentication. Emerson says in his most famous ecstatic passage: 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 . . . Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air... | |
 | Martin Heusser, Gudrun Grabher - 2002 - 238 pages
...the soul. Here is his famous "transparent eyeball" passage: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
 | Joan Delaney Grossman, Ruth Rischin - 2003 - 276 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 [James comments] if one have such responsive... | |
 | Vincent Michael Colapietro - 2003 - 348 pages
...that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. . . . 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" (Emerson 1982, 38). Like Emerson, Miller realizes: "One cannot call... | |
 | 2003 - 92 pages
...SPRING ASPENS, ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST AUTUMN OAKS AND PONDEROSA PINES, CASTLE PINES, DOUGLAS COUNTY 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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson CONIFERS ALONG THE WEST DOLORES RIVER, SAN... | |
 | Karen Gallas - 2003 - 196 pages
...at the immensity of creation. Emerson (1849/1983) writes: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear Standing on 34... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...your world? What do you bring to that place where you stand? 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 its slough,... | |
 | Central European Pragmatist Forum. Conference - 2004 - 286 pages
...imagination in Kantian terminology, can still be overwhelmed: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky. without having in my thoughts any occurrences of special good fortune. 1 have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...familiar preamble to the epiphany of the transparent eyeball: "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" (E&L 1 0) . Weisbuch's commentary, from its opening rhetorical question... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 322 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.... | |
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