 The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign, is it not?  Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 233by Harriet Martineau - 1838Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...utterance till it is given. We rejoiced with sympathetic joy when we read that sentence in this address, " I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic, what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek Art or Provencal Minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign — is it not? — of new vigour, when the extremities are made active, when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what... | |
 | 1843 - 452 pages
...life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign — is it not ? — of new vigor, when the extremities are made active, when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, th'e romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...vigour, when the extremities are made active—when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common: I explore and sit at... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...vigour, when the extremities are made active—when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common—I explore and sit at... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign, —is it not ? of new vigor, when the extremities are made active, when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...thoughtful observers as a great stride from the false to the true. " Is it not a sign," we are asked, "of vigour, when the extremities are made active — when...the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia, what is Greek art or Provencial minstrelsy ; I embrace the common ; 1 explore and sit at... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign, — is it not ? of new vigor, when the extremities are made active, when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1847 - 344 pages
...the surest indication of the poet. ' I ask not,' says the great spiritual philosopher of America ; ' I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provensal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign, — is it not ? of new vigour, when the extremities are made active —...when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what... | |
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