 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provenqal minstrelsy0; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique 30 and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven 9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...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... | |
 | 1904 - 1036 pages
...unpretentious which he has expressed so well, "I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; I embrace the common ; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low ;" here he acquired that deep-seated and thoroughly German conviction of the dignity of scholastic... | |
 | James Hutchins Baker - 1913 - 200 pages
...is best everywhere. Emerson had this insight: " I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; I embrace the common ; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." Illustrations of the truth of this philosophy are not few or far to seek. I have seen, here, the hillsides... | |
 | Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 pages
...the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Prove^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Xrive me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 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...familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may Lave the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provengal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. I/Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds/ What would we really... | |
 | 1923 - 1028 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...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
...remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal ministrelsy. I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...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... | |
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I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provencjal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. 
