 Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.  The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 72by John Kelman - 1904 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight,...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight,...of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhiliration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow-puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years as the snake his... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet-philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we shall make from the Essay on " Nature,"... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...only their lodging and table." No such stranger is our poet philosopher. " Crossing a bare common, in twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my...of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhileration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am." The only quotation we shall make from the essay... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight,...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1849 - 414 pages
...equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight,...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of... | |
 | Stephen Henry Ward - Medicine, Popular - 1853 - 432 pages
...from whom I have just quoted, " the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost, I fear to think how glad I am." The peripatetic is enabled not only to enjoy the broader effects... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight,...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy of nature - 1856 - 402 pages
...good health; the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow pud- ' dies, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of... | |
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