 | Gerry Spence - 1997 - 452 strani
...he had worked his way back to life. To live is work, but my father would have agreed with Emerson: "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." Nearly forty years before, in 1954, my father had been hunting white-tailed deer in the Black Hills... | |
 | Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 strani
...maturing in a few pregnant lines. "How does nature deify us," he says, "with a few 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 moonrise my Paphos and unimaginable realms of fairie; broad... | |
 | Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx - 2002 - 300 strani
...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... | |
 | R. Wayne Willis - 2002 - 140 strani
...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... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 strani
..."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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 strani
...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 moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad... | |
 | William Potter - 2004 - 274 strani
...an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling" (85; ch. 17), Emerson's bold claim in "Nature": "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous," and Carlyle's wry observation, "With Stupidity and sound Digestion man may front much" (Sartor Resartus... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 strani
...never tired, so long as we can see far enough. 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. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds,... | |
 | Clayne R. Jensen, Steven Guthrie - 2006 - 392 strani
...sources? federal fund since the 1960s has historically been CHAPTER Economic Factors in Outdoor Recreation Give me health and a day and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. Ralph Waldo Emerson Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and... | |
 | Philipp Mehne - 2008 - 234 strani
...over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share. [...]. Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos [...]; broad noon shall be my England of... | |
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Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. 
