 I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop 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...  American Literature - Page 154by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 336 pages
...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...enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire wil h the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and... | |
 | David Thomas - 1877 - 492 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1880 - 982 pages
...slow barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moouriso my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall bo my England of the senses... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1880 - 974 pages
...barges — the river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in his earliest book, "aud I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moourise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faery ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses... | |
 | 1907 - 700 pages
...future, the " Uebermensch," then an education must mean also the sedulous cultivation of health. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." But more important, perhaps, than information, accuracy, and health is the cultivation of that love... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1880 - 362 pages
...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 - 370 pages
...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.... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1880 - 980 pages
...barges — tho river of Paradise. "Give me health and a day," says Emerson, in bis earliest book, "aud I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria, tho sunset and moourise my Paphos, aud unimaginable realms of faory; broad noon shall be my England... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...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:...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... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 pages
...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... | |
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