 Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 16by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 pages
...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morni ng wi nd. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. .... The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection. The... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...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 me health and...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. .... The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection. The... | |
 | 1889 - 92 pages
...transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moonrise my...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 296 pages
...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...the senses and the understanding; the night shall bo my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 pages
...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 and rnoonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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