 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1884 - 410 דפים
...yet unknown to fame, with scant means and a doubtful future : " Almost I fear to think how glad I am. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." This from Charles Lamb, who had had his full share of mortal woe : — " I am in love with this green... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 דפים
...breezes " ; and again, " Hawthorne rides well his horse of the night." As he spoke, so he wrote: " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous " ; " The conscious ship hears all the praise "; of young idealists, "The tough world had its revenge... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 554 דפים
...breezes " ; and again, " Hawthorne rides well his horse of the night." As he spoke, so he wrote : " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous " ; " The conscious ship hears all the praise " ; of young idealists, "The tough world had its revenge... | |
 | 1885 - 906 דפים
...tJte 'umitingtable, adding a few sentences to a letter to Miss Isabel Lee, which his wife had begun. "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Health ind a day ! This is what Mr. Emerson says in that rhapsody on Nature, which I still think his... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 488 דפים
...pleasures, innocent and pure, of common things which round us lie. Mr. Emerson said in his first book: "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 fairy-realm ; broad noon my England... | |
 | Gordon Stables - 1886 - 398 דפים
...tissues at once, let us consider for a moment what health really is. It was Emerson, I think, who said, " Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." There is a deal of truth underlying that sentence. To put it in my own homely way : if a young inau,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 476 דפים
...pleasures, innocent and pure, of common things which round us lie. Mr. Emerson said in his first book: "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 fairy-realm ; broad noon my England... | |
 | Edith Matilda Thomas - 1887 - 152 דפים
...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... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 דפים
.... . . 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 דפים
...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 of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria ; the sunset and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie ; broad... | |
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. 
