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" Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 315 pages
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Lyrics and Sonnets

Edith Matilda Thomas - 1887 - 152 pages
...I am too flush and free, — To lavish all on thee ! Wilt thou atone, To-morrow ? SONNETS. TO-DAY. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — EMERSON. How rich am I to whom the Orient sends Such gifts as yonder fair and liberal Day, Whose...
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Waiting on Destiny: A Story for Girls

Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1889 - 324 pages
...with." " Yes, I know the little book, and I have thought two or three times to-day of his sentences. ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous,' was in my mind as we rode up. ' The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos ; and unimaginable...
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Studies in Literature and Style

Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 pages
...terse and telling way he has, which is all his own, of presenting and fixing the idea that he utters. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." " The moment discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 17, Part 2

1890 - 548 pages
...amateur's heart, and he is ready to paraphrase the words of Emerson and exclaim : " Give me sunlight and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." y( .,A^ 00 CO OQ 00 00 00 ,:-- *,*M;UX^ L*;^;1' ^l^'1 ".Vft* *.*!£* '^ r^.i^SJ'^lfellr "ii%I'S«-S1,i...
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American Literature

Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 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 few and cheap elements ! Give health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset...
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Initial Studies in American Letters

Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 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 few and cheap elements I Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria;...
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The Speaker: Being One of a Series of Handbooks Upon Practical Expression ...

George Lansing Raymond - 1892 - 382 pages
...their counterparts in the brightest hopes and the saddest sorrows of the human spirit. Emerson says, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding ; the night shall be my Germany...
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Maid Marian

Thomas Love Peacock - 1892 - 184 pages
...convincingly admonish them, with point of arrow, that they have * How does Nature deify us with a few cheap elements ! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — EMERSON. — G. nothing to do with our laws but to obey them. Is it not written that the fat ribs...
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Thomas Carlyle

John Nichol - 1892 - 266 pages
...vision ranges 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 halfGermanised Scotchman, living near the roar of the metropolis, with thoughts of Weimar...
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Literary News, Volumes 13-14

1892 - 806 pages
...over the riddle of the earth, while Emerson's vision ranged over clear horizons as he exclaimed, " Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Nowhere is Prof. Nichol more interesting or more successful than in this characterization of these...
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