...Arabia; what is 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...meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pnn; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait...

...What could have been more truly Emersonian than this ? "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." And he had been again to Harvard to speak his Divinity School address, that word that smote hard upon...

...minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at tho feet of tho familiar, the low. Givo mo insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the moaning of t Tho meal in the firkin ; the milk in tho pan ; tho ballad in the street; the news of the...

...beginning to be interested in near and common things instead of in the " doings in Italy and Arabia." " What would we really know the meaning of — the meal...firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street." And he closes in that hopeful strain, so characteristic of Emerson, by expressing the utmost faith...

...each vet with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. — HORACE MANN. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future world). — EMERSON. There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man who has...

...beginning to be interested in near and common things instead of in the " doings in Italy and Arabia." " What would we really know the meaning of — the meal...firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street." And he closes in that hopeful strain, so characteristic of Emerson, by expressing the utmost faith...

...each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. — HORACE MANN. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. — EMEESON. There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man who has an inclination,...

...Italy, what is Greek art, or provincial minstrelsy. I embrace the common, I explore, and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and the future worlds." So says Emerson, once more half-right — agreeing with hisfellow-New-Englander...

...to-day his own: He who, secure within himself can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day." Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. —EMERSON. "Just to fill the hour, that is happiness." " Happy then is the man who has that in his...

...necessity of independent thought. America with him had no prototype, no model. "Give me," he said, "insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds." I have a profound reverence for tradition, and accept humbly the lessons of experience, but in Lowell's...