 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...  Sketches of Lancashire Life and Localities - Page 189by Edwin Waugh - 1857 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States - 1838 - 540 pages
...moonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams." If this subjection of all nature to himself does not prove intimate acquaintance, the following severe... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 638 pages
...sunset and moon rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of fairie; broad noon shall be my England of senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. " Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm of a January... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 648 pages
...sunset and moon rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of fairie ; broad noon shall be my England of senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. " Not less excellent, except for our less susceptibility in the afternoon, was the charm of a January... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams!" We cannot disguise the fact, that on a first perusal, Emerson offers many difficulties. His writings... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams. and every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music. The inhabitants... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...Assyria ; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of Faerie : broad noon shall bo my Eng-land of the senses and the understanding ;...shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams !" He growls not from the " tub" upon the splendid presence of Alexander. Mr. Macaulay, somewhere,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sun-set and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the...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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 414 pages
...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sun-set and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon-rise my Faphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the...be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams."— Nature, pp. 9 — 10, 1 1 — 13, 21 — 22. Most writers are demonized or possessed by some one truth,... | |
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