 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
 | Victoria Brehm - 2001 - 346 páginas
...joins Schiller in the belief that the subject is empowered. He puts it in terms of imperial desire: "The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my...faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams" (17). Emerson's metaphor... | |
 | R. Wayne Willis - 2002 - 140 páginas
...said, "to the sunnier side of doubt." Sensitized by the sufferers of the world, we side with Emerson: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." We find whiners— those who say the porridge is too hot or too cold, the chair too hard or too soft—hard... | |
 | Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx - 2002 - 300 páginas
...people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise" —Congresswoman Barhara Jordan "Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." —Ralph Waldo Emerson Picking berries on a cool summer morning. There is now an association for eating-contest... | |
 | David Harris - 2000 - 664 páginas
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 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 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 Walderi) to... | |
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