I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provenqal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Nature; Addresses, and Lectures - Page 106by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 383 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - 1922 - 376 pages
...that around us are rushing into life cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. ... I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." " Democracy ! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing." This Address,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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
...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal le to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that may'have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the Arkin;... | |
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