...a question we need to read as a commentary on Emerson's familiar lines from "The American Scholar": "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low."10 When we learn in the Investigations that "philosophy simply puts everything before us, and...

...großen Dingen und auf andere Objekte zu richten: »l ask not for the ijrr.it , the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art. or Provencal minstrelsy; l embrace the common, l explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the Iow« (Emerson 1888, 333)....

...household life, are the topics of the time. [...] I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; 1 embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. [...] show me the sublime...

...native, homely art which Emerson sought to encourage. "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 the feet of the familiar, the low."...

...implied stricture seems to fit Pound even better: "I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia, what is Greek art,...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." Pound's theory of experimentation is in the American grain, but his practice in The Cantos, his pamphleteering...

...despite the elitist brushing aside of the "poor and the low," he can also declare in this same essay, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low" (E&L 68-69). We associate this mental republicanism, or potential natural aristocracy of every man,...

...feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." In the same breath, Emerson wrote, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." His soulmate Thoreau, in a passage of which Ives was fond, echoed, "Natural objects and phenomena are...

...meaning of household life, are the topics of the time 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, o I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." And, in 1845, when c Henry David Thoreau...

...his own : He who, secure within himself can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day." Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and fnture worlds. — EMKKSON. "Just to fill the hour, that is happiness." " Happy then is the man who...

...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,...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (Writings 61). 216 Henrietta Street: Just west of Covent Garden Market and very near 34 to the Duke...