 I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which 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...  Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Página 21de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 1474 páginas
...Drag Stone, or lent poat free tram — C. Of. A. OJl.r>Rri>GE'S, 22 Wellington Street, Btrui Pomp. 4 Give me Health and a day, and I will make the Pomp of Emperors Ridiculous.' — EMEBSOS. Experience! from 'We Gather the Honey of Wisdom Thorns, not from Flowers.'— LYTTON.... | |
 | Donald M. McAllister - 1982 - 324 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | William A. Dyrness - 1989 - 184 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau - 1994 - 148 páginas
...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...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with 14 the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day,... | |
 | Deepak Chopra - 1991 - 228 páginas
...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... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1992 - 178 páginas
..."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... | |
 | Joan Burbick - 1994 - 368 páginas
...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...dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind" (N, 13). This heightened connectedness to the natural world and its aesthetic delights comes directly... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 páginas
...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...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire [breathe in unison] with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements!... | |
 | Gerry Spence - 1997 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 páginas
...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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