| Andreas Fischer, Martin Heusser, Thomas Herrmann - 1997 - 366 páginas
...Platonist notions, holds true for Cummings' thinking, as well 8 Cf. Nature: Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. ... I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate... | |
| Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 páginas
...beholding eyeball, synechdochical of the body, may also be collectively owned. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. 1 am glad to the brink of fear. In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough,... | |
| Richard Francis - 1997 - 286 páginas
...into sharp and memorable focus when he gives us this vignette of himself: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. Almost I fear to think how glad I am."28 One can recognize the experience Emerson describes without... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1998 - 244 páginas
...efflorescence of youth. "In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...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... | |
| J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson - 1998 - 716 páginas
...mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...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 h1s... | |
| Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 páginas
...will of God, and so is free to be known by all men." In Emerson's own words: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...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... | |
| Carl Safina - 1999 - 490 páginas
...the boat, leaving the dolphin pods breathing at the surface in the near distance. As Emerson wrote: "I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear." We plan to drop in at Blue Hole and work our way toward Blue Corner. Devon says something about the... | |
| Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 páginas
...passages in Emerson's writings are accounts of immediate physical experiences. "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thought any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to... | |
| William James - 2000 - 404 páginas
...that is in me, is me! And that is what they think they have taken prisoner! That is what they have shut up in a cabin!' So he smiled, and turned in to...a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear."10 Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities. But we of the highly... | |
| Philip Wesley Jackson - 1998 - 228 páginas
...kind of experience that Emerson famously described in Nature when he wrote, "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky,...perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear" (Emerson 1983, 10). Though such experiences are obviously aesthetic in character, they are not designedly... | |
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