 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
 | Alexis Soyer - 1851 - 498 pages
...envy the man who is thirsty and has a bottle of this same beverage within reach. Emerson has said, ' Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.* Give us thirst and a bottle of Soyer's Nectar, say we, and we will laugh to scorn the cup of Hebe.... | |
 | Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 378 pages
...enjoyed the finest pleasure. Fanny read for the second time this passage—" How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." I remarked that 1 should remember that thought in all my rambles, and feel how wealthy 1 was with the... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - 1855 - 282 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...understanding ; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philophy and dreams." If men had their eyes open to the beauties and uses of those elements which are... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 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...emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sun-«et and mo<>i]-ri«e my Paphos, und unimaginable realms of fuerie ; broad noon shall be my Lugland... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How docs Mature deify us with a few and cheap elemental Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and-moon-rise my Pnphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my Lngland of the senses... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 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 a day, and I will make the pump of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1859 - 438 pages
...White Mountain valleys, interpret for us the passage of our great poet : " How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." And we cannot better close these pages on the privilege of sight in a village like North Conway than... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...White Mountain valleys, interpret for us the passage of our great poet : " How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." And we cannot better close these pages on the privilege of sight in a village like North Conway than... | |
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