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" What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body; — show me the ultimate reason of these matters; — show... "
The Rose of Sharon: A Religious Souvenir - Page 71
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God in the Street: New York Writing from the Penny Press to Melville

Hans Bergmann - 1995 - 276 pages
...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as always it does lurk, in the suburbs and extremities of nature; let me see every...and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber room, but has form and order, there is no trifle; there is no puzzle; but one design unites...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law; and the shop, the plough, and the leger, referred to the like cause by which light undulates...and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber room, but has form and order; there is no trifle; there is no puzzle; but one design unites...
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliance

Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...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...and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber room, but has form and order; there is no trifle; there is no puzzle; but one design unites...
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Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry

Anthony Hecht - 2003 - 334 pages
...lend itself to the confident summing-up that Emerson so cheerfully posits in "The American Scholar": What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber room, but has form and order; there is no trifle; there is no puzzle; but one design unites...
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Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth

Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law; and the shop, the plough, and the leger, referred to the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing," and there will be no trifle and no puzzle, just the one design that "unites and animates the farthest pinnacle...
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body;—show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the...the like cause by which light undulates and poets sing;—and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order; there...
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Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic ...

Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...call secular, everyday reality. It is here precisely where Emerson locates the spiritual realm: [Sjhow me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the...which light undulates and poets sing; — and the word lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber room, but has form and order, (p. 69) For Emerson...
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Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All ...

Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...let me see every trifle bristling with the polarity that ranges it instantly on an eternal law, . . . referred to the like cause by which light undulates...— and the world lies no longer a dull miscellany. . .but has form and order; there is no trifle; there is no puzzle; but one design unites and animates...
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