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" I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provengal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. "
The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life - Page 261
1923
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 pages
...not ? — of new 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...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

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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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Book 7

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...are asked, "of 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,...is doing in Italy or Arabia, what is Greek art or Provencial minstrelsy ; I embrace the common ; 1 explore and sit at the feet of the familiar and the...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 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 Provencjal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low....
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The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenir, Volume 1847

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...is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provensal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low....
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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...what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, of Proven9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the...
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Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 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...minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at tin; feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 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...Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; u embjace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the \o^> Give me insight into...
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