 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...  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Página ixde Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 370 páginas
...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 - 362 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 pomp...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 páginas
...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 pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, last evening,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 páginas
...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 pomp...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 páginas
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Natnre deify us with a few and cheap elements'. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp...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 - 496 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 páginas
...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 pomp...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm, last evening,... | |
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