| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven 9al 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. 25 What would we really know ihe meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan ; the ballad... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the Lave the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin... | |
| 1923 - 1028 pages
...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...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. Emerson and Thoreau worked in the same vineyard, sometimes in the same garden; and they so freely exchanged... | |
| Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 pages
...age. Accept it: embrace the common, the familiar, the low. Burns and Wordsworth and Carlyle are right. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. The important thing is the single person. The man is all. Then follows the wonderful peroration, which... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1924 - 380 pages
...Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provengal ministrelsy. 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. Emerson and Thoreau worked in the same vineyard, sometimes in the same garden; and they so freely exchanged... | |
| Henry Howard Harper - 1924 - 208 pages
...art and literary compositions is an almost certain indication of merit; although Emerson said, — Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds. In the poetical effusions of the past we are continually discovering new interpretations and recondite... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...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 to-day, and you may'have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the Arkin;... | |
| Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...soul there is no great and small, no high and low. "I embrace the common, I explore it 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." In "The Sphinx" he declares that "The fiend that man harries Is love of the Best;" and here he says... | |
| 1917 - 716 pages
...a small ocean." He might also have said the man is a small government. In this same address he said "Give me insight into to-day and you may have the antique and the future worlds." And within a quarter of a century after Emerson delivered his address on The American... | |
| Henry F. May - 1991 - 230 pages
..."The American Scholar," for knowing the "highest spiritual cause lurking, as it always does lurk" in "the meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body...." Finally and most completely, Romantic insight and theory found its way to imaginative... | |
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