| Samuel Adams Devens - East (U.S.) - 1838 - 230 pages
...woods is perpetual youth ; within the plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years.' Among other objects of interest, are the Unitarian Church, which is hardly equalled for imposing effect... | |
| Samuel Adams Devens - History - 1838 - 228 pages
...woods is perpetual youth ; within the plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire o/ them in a thousand years.' Among other objects of interest, are the Unitarian Church, which is hardly... | |
| 1848 - 596 pages
...negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself." — P. 65.* " In the woods we return to reason and faith. There...Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blythe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he...faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reisjn ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes) which Nature cannot repair. Standing... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...woods, is perpetual youth. "Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair. With the trees I am not alone and unacquainted : they... | |
| Day Kellogg Lee - Textile workers - 1854 - 378 pages
...perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, A decorum and sanctity reign, A perennial festival's dressed, And the guest sees not how he should tire Of them in a thousand years." The girls were sustained, and I called their attention to the passage on the landscape. Miss Mumby... | |
| Theodore Parker - American literature - 1864 - 626 pages
...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 my thoughts...thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faitL There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my... | |
| Leopold Hartley Grindon - Emblems - 1869 - 112 pages
...woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair. With the trees I am not alone and unacquainted : they... | |
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