 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...  Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Página 21de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 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
...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 make the pomp...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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