 But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows...  Companions of my solitude [by sir A. Helps]. - Page 208by sir Arthur Helps - 1854Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pages
...which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of (lay, the dewy morning, the rainhow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight,...become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element, is essential to its perfection. The high... | |
 | 1838 - 540 pages
...does not prove intimate acquaintance, the following severe truth of fact must do so : " The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight shadows in the still water, and the like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us wkh thcir unreality.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...ornament. But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards...unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and it is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...ornament. But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards...unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...ornament. But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards...unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel ; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...ornament. But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards...unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel ; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...ornament. But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day. the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards...unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't fa mere tinsel ; it will not please us when its light shine* upon your necessary journey. The beauty... | |
 | 1856 - 386 pages
...Helps. But this beauty of nature, which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards...eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with . J their unreality. Go out of the house to see the moon, and it is mere tinsel; it will not please... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day. tbt in, " What hope is there, sister. Unless the soul...learn From the proverb's old strain* : — « 'If, w Ч is mere titiM/l ; it will not please us when its light shines upon vour necessary journey. The beauty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...ornament. But this beauty of Nature which is seen and felt as beauty, is the least part. The shows of day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards...become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. Go1 out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel ; it will not please as when its light... | |
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