 | Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 pages
...partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a...and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of fteiie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1917 - 592 pages
...plain living. But it was also a life of high thinking and rich enjoyment of what each day brought. "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous!" said the sage of Concord. So it was with little Alice Freeman. As she picked wild strawberries on the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...its rapid transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a...day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. Tlie dawn is iny Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
 | David Thomas - 1877 - 492 pages
...in what we presently do with it and ultimately make of it ! A beautiful thing is healthful life. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of kings and emperors ridiculous! " exclaims a great living author, who knows to rapturous realization,... | |
 | 1880 - 982 pages
...slow barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moouriso my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall bo my England of the senses... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1880 - 974 pages
...barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "aud I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moourise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses... | |
 | 1907 - 700 pages
...future, the " Uebermensch," then an education must mean also the sedulous cultivation of health. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But more important, perhaps, than information, accuracy, and health is the cultivation of that love... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1880 - 980 pages
...barges — tho river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in bis earliest book, "aud I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, tho sunset and moourise my Paphos, aud unimaginable realms of faory; broad noon shall be my England... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 362 pages
...daily neglecting the elements of purest and loftiest pleasure. " Give me," says an American writer, "health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But to enable us thus to enjoy the gifts of nature we all need more open eyes, more grateful hearts.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 370 pages
...daily neglecting the elements of .purest and loftiest pleasure. " Give me," says an American writer, " health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But to enable us thus to enjoy the gifts of nature we all need more open eyes, more grateful hearts.... | |
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. 
