 | Cathryn Essinger - 1998 - 108 pages
...from "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar." The second epigraph asks, "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat." Emerson and Essinger demand "insight into to-day," desiring to know "the sublime presence of the highest... | |
 | Edward Craig - 1998 - 900 pages
...Emerson does not wish to transcend the common world. '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 future worlds.' 'An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge', commonly known as the... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 315 pages
...that situates Williams alongside Cavell's Emerson ("I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into...pan; the ballad in the street,, the news of the boat . . .").60 Compare the "Prologue" to Kara in Hell, with its idea of a museum of everyday paintings... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 315 pages
...that situates Williams alongside Cavell's Emerson ("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 pan,the ballad in the street,- the news of the boat . . .").60 Compare the "Prologue" to Kora in Hell,... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Michael T. Marsden - 1999 - 246 pages
...Emerson understood this danger when he advised us to discover the real meaning of America by examining "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." Unfortunately, according to Fishwick, seeking a methodology which will be respected... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...of effort to become more alive to the present moment as the only theater of spiritual development. "Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (CW 1: 67). These influences of modern literature were also supplemented by a wide variety of religious... | |
 | Ivan Gaskell - 2000 - 274 pages
...when in 'The American Scholar' (1837) he wrote of the significance of 'the meaning of household life': What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news from the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body; show me the ultimate reason... | |
 | Alexander Meiklejohn - 2000 - 460 pages
...suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts. ... 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 future worlds." Boo\s for General Reading and Discussion: (1) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser. Liveright. $1.00.... | |
 | Jason A. Frank, John Tambornino - 368 pages
...1 g This presentist sensibility is reinforced by Emerson in "The American Scholar" when he writes, "Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds." This passage is an indicator of how Emerson addresses the tragedy of a diminished past and an unknown... | |
 | Jessica R. Feldman - 2002 - 292 pages
...the importance of domestic culture in James's work, these words from Emerson's "American Scholar": What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the... | |
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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... 
