 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
 | 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.... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 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. . . . "But this beauty of Nature, which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 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."- — Nature, pp. 9 — 10, 11 — 13, 21 — 22. Most writers are demonized or possessed by some one... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Natnre deify us with a few and cheap elements'. Give me health and...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrme my Paphos, und unimaginable realms of fueric; broad noon shall be my England of the eenses... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...ranges freely 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 half-Germanised Scotchman, living near the roar of our great metropolis, with memories... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...ranges freely 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 half-Germanised Scotchman, living near the roar of our great metropolis, with memories... | |
 | Physician and sanitarian, Martin Luther Holbrook - 1882 - 206 pages
...neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities." In another place this same gifted author says, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Many other far-seeing authors, both ancient and modern, have urged with great emphasis and power the... | |
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