 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 the feet of the familiar, the low.  Social Ideals in English Letters - Page 197by Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 329 pagesFull 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,...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." A distinguished sculptor was asked, " where when the gods had returned to Olympus, and the iconoclastic... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy and Arabia ; what is Greek art or Proven9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore -and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 pages
...vigour, when the extremities are made active, when currents of warm life run into the hands and feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy and Arabia ; what is Greek art or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 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...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know... | |
 | 1843 - 452 pages
...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...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and the future worlds. What would we really... | |
 | 1847 - 340 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...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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;...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar —the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know... | |
 | 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...Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common—I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar—the low. Give me insight into to-day, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...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...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...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...is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provenqal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.... | |
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