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 - Página 16por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Noble Kibby Royse - 1872 - 382 páginas
...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...and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of fteiie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1917 - 592 páginas
...plain living. But it was also a life of high thinking and rich enjoyment of what each day brought. "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous!" said the sage of Concord. So it was with little Alice Freeman. As she picked wild strawberries on the... | |
| James Stormonth - 1876 - 194 páginas
...Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. " How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health and...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Face all things ; even Adversity is polite to a man's face. Necessity is the mother of invention, but... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 páginas
...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...day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. Tlie dawn is iny Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
| David Thomas - 1877 - 492 páginas
...in what we presently do with it and ultimately make of it ! A beautiful thing is healthful life. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of kings and emperors ridiculous! " exclaims a great living author, who knows to rapturous realization,... | |
| 1879 - 512 páginas
...emperors ridiculous. The dawn shall be my Assyria ; moonrise and sunset my Paphos, and unimaginable realm of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England, of the senses and the understanding; and night shall be my Germany, of mystic philosophy and dreams." When out for a ramble of a fine day,... | |
| 1879 - 516 páginas
...emperors ridiculous. The dawn shall be my Assyria ; moon rise and sunset my Paphos, and unimaginable realm of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England, of the senses and the understanding ; and night shall be my Germany, of mystic philosophy and dreams." When out for a ramble of a fine... | |
| 1880 - 672 páginas
...enchantments reach 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." Colder people will think this an outburst of the riotous blood of youth ; yet it is only in Shakespeare... | |
| 1880 - 982 páginas
...slow barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moouriso my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall bo my England of the senses... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1880 - 974 páginas
...barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "aud I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moourise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses... | |
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