...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, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a 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,...

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...that Emerson famously described in Nature when he wrote, "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear" (Emerson 1983, 10). Though such experiences are obviously aesthetic...

...life-currents absorbed by what is given. "Crossing a bare common," says Emerson, "in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear."10 Life is always worth living, if one have such responsive sensibilities....

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...available to the poet in the most rude and ordinary things: "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration" (2). Every hour of the day and night and every season, from the bleakest days of February to the endless...

...sketch of an experience of transparency on Concord Common. "Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in...occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed myself to perfect exhilaration." The exhilaration seems to arise from a trompe I'oeil effect: the congruence...