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" 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 16
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
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The Table-talk of Shirley [pseud.]: Reminiscences of and Letters from Froude ...

Sir John Skelton - 1895 - 398 pages
...my crust there, and drinking my glass of wine, I have often thought of the words of Emerson, — ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of Emperors ridiculous.' On one occasion especially, when the guns were thundering in France in honour of Louis Napoleon, I...
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Evaluation in Environmental Planning: Assessing Environmental, Social ...

Donald M. McAllister - 1982 - 324 pages
...reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. 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.17 Environmental Values to the Dial, a transcendental periodical that both he and Emerson...
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Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society

Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 pages
...the development of such an elaborate map of consciousness in Emerson's suggestion in "Nature" that "the dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams" (Works 1:17). But to use Patterson's phrase, Dickinson was a "naive symbolist" who based her myths...
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R.W. Emersons Naturauffassung und ihre philosophischen Ursprünge: eine ...

Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...durchlaufenen Kultur- und Bewußtseinsformen: The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Pathos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the sense and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. (p. 13)...
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How Does America Hear the Gospel?

William A. Dyrness - 1989 - 184 pages
...Americans' fundamental attachment to the natural. In his famous essay on "Nature," Emerson rhapsodizes: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria . . . broad noon shall be my England" (Essays, 43). We have no need of these traditions; we may find...
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Return of the Rishi: A Doctor's Story of Spiritual Transformation and ...

Deepak Chopra - 1991 - 228 pages
...invincible. It should be so perfect that nothing better can be imagined and nothing worse can touch it. "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." This comes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who aimed for exuberant vitality in everything. No one else has...
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The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition

Stanley Cavell - 1992 - 178 pages
..."Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In Nature he had said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." When I first read the ensuing summary of how Emerson proposed (as Thoreau will put it in Walden) to...
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Emerson's Literary Criticism

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...dust, and I dilate and conspire [breathe in unison] with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and...pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria [power]; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos [myth], and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall...
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The Making of a Country Lawyer: An Autobiography

Gerry Spence - 1997 - 452 pages
...he had worked his way back to life. To live is work, but my father would have agreed with Emerson: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Nearly forty years before, in 1954, my father had been hunting white-tailed deer in the Black Hills...
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A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1869-1884: What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively ...

Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 pages
...half a lifetime's maturing in a few pregnant lines. "How does nature deify us," he says, "with a few cheap elements. Give me health and a day, and I will...and moonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of fairie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding, and night shall be my Germany...
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