... an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust,... Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a Tale - Página 211de Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 353 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1848 - 614 páginas
...transformations ; tbe active 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 IwiU make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moonrine ray 1 '... | |
| 1849 - 448 páginas
...transformations : the active 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 wimp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon-rise my Faphos, and unimaginable... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 páginas
...transformations: the active 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... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 518 páginas
...expecting a very long life. I feel an insuperable longing to enjoy myself for a few months. Emerson says, 'Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp and luxury of emperors and kings ridiculous.' For ' health,' alas ! I have not much to hope, and so... | |
| 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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 páginas
...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature dcify us with a few and cheap elements ! Give me health ^\ and a day, and I will make the pomp of empe- / rors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sun- • set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 páginas
...lead all those that are with young.— Isaiah. 62. Let us turne to him with an upright heart So 63. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and 1 will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; .... broad noon shall be my England... | |
| Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 páginas
...transformations: the active 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 health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1897 - 844 páginas
...and good until our eyes and minds are weary and then go forth to commune with nature. Kmerson s.'iys, "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emper" on ridiculous." The treshuess and beauty of the morning, the splendor of the noon and the glory... | |
| 1899 - 556 páginas
...quotation is to be found in Emerson'3 essay on "Beauty," in "Nature, and Other Addresses." This is the passage: " How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements. Give health and a day, and I will make the pom]) of emperors ridiculous." E. c. 373.— The book containing... | |
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