 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...  An Emerson Calendar - 45 psl.autoriai: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 psl.
.... . . Self-command is the main elegance. 'Keep cool, and you command everybody,' said St. Just." " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." " No man can be a master in conversation who has not learned much from women ; their presence and inspiration... | |
 | Edith Matilda Thomas - 1887 - 152 psl.
...I am too flush and free, — To lavish all on thee ! Wilt thou atone, To-morrow ? SONNETS. TO-DAY. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — EMERSON. How rich am I to whom the Orient sends Such gifts as yonder fair and liberal Day, Whose... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 psl.
...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. .... The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection. The... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1888 - 600 psl.
...dilate and conspire with the morni ng wi nd. 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. .... The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection. The... | |
 | 1889 - 92 psl.
...transformations : the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind The dawn is my Assyria, the sunset and moonrise my...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1889 - 324 psl.
...with." " Yes, I know the little book, and I have thought two or three times to-day of his sentences. ' Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous,' was in my mind as we rode up. ' The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos ; and unimaginable... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 psl.
...terse and telling way he has, which is all his own, of presenting and fixing the idea that he utters. " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." " The moment discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts and is inflamed with passion or exalted... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1890 - 548 psl.
...amateur's heart, and he is ready to paraphrase the words of Emerson and exclaim : " Give me sunlight and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." y( .,A^ 00 CO OQ 00 00 00 ,:-- *,*M;UX^ L*;^;1' ^l^'1 ".Vft* *.*!£* '^ r^.i^SJ'^lfellr "ii%I'S«-S1,i... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1891 - 288 psl.
...dilate and conspire with the morning wind. How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements 1 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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