 In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There...  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leo Hartley Grindon - 1883 - 360 pages
...for joyfulness, she refuses to sustain the mournful. "In the woods," according to his own experience, '"'we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life — no disease, no calamity, which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair." Old Homer represents Achilles... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1884 - 416 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...(leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. All this,' he added, ' I learned from a great master long ago, and the experience of a life has confirmed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods,...disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cauuot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods wo return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing...me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving mo my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1886 - 364 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...(leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.' How different is this from Dante's feeling about the forest ! As the gloom of evening settled down... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods,...faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - 1890 - 528 pages
...o'f God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods,...can befall me in life — no disgrace, no calamity, which nature cannot repair. Low lies the plant to whose creation went Sweet influence from every element... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...of God decorum and sanctity reign ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...of God decorum and sanctity reign ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which Nature cannot repair. Standing on the... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 298 pages
...sanctity reigns, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them ,na thousand years. In the woods we return to reason and...faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which uature cannot repair. Standing on the bare... | |
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