...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 presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking, as it always does lurk,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...the philosophy of the Street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. [...] VCTiat would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the bailad in the street, the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; -...

...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 leaves the city for the wilderness, he finds refuge in a small...

...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...

..."American Scholar" speech of 1836. Says Emerson: I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...have the antique and future worlds. What would we know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news...

...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" (Writings 61). 216 Henrietta Street: Just west of Covent Garden Market and very near 34 to the Duke...

...read by Ralph Waldo Emerson, he had called for a new approach to American literature: "What would we know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan!" Only when I found Sarah Orne Jewett did I think I knew what he meant. What her stories suggested to...