 I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look...  Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Page 21by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Waugh - 1857 - 256 pages
...significance of what the philosophic Emerson says, relative to the influence of nature's beauty:—" Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of iUi-ric; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1897 - 844 pages
...and good until our eyes and minds are weary and then go forth to commune with nature. Emerson says, "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." The freshness and beau'.y of the morning, the splendor of the noon and the glory of the dying day are ours.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon -rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1864 - 508 pages
...-that drew from Emerson that note, we can all respond to, in our higher moments of intenser life, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." With Kenrick, even to his blindness there came a sense of the beauty and the glow. He could enjoy the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1864 - 332 pages
...this that drew from Emerson that note we can all respond to, in our higher moments of intenser life, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." With Kenrick, even to his blindness there came a sense of the beauty and the glow. He could enjoy the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...into that silent sea. I seem to partake its ra|>id transformations : the active enchantment reaciie» estowed with elemente! Give me health amV a day, and 1 will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 pages
...expecting a very long life. I feel an insuperable longing to enjoy myself for a few months. Emerson says, 'Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp and luxury of emperors and kings ridiculous.' For ' health,' alas ! I have not much to hope, and so... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...ranges freely over her clear horizons, and he leaps up elastic under her light atmosphere, exclaiming, ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.' Carlyle is a Germanized Scotsman, living near the roar of our great metropolis, with memories of Weimar... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its...conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us 1 with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 254 pages
...Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things : We murder to dissect. WORDSWORTH. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements...day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. EMERSON. WHEN up some woodland dale we catch The many-twinkling smile of ocean, Or with pleased ear... | |
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