...beginning to be interested in near and common things instead of in the " doings in Italy and Arabia." " What would we really know the meaning of — the meal...firkin, the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street." And he closes in that hopeful strain, so characteristic of Emerson, by expressing the utmost faith...

...each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. — HORACE MANN. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. — EMEESON. There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man who has an inclination,...

...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy and Arabia, what is Greek art, or Provengal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the ultimate reason of...

...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...the pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the ultimate reason...

...great, the remote, the romantic, what is doing in Arabia or in Italy, what is Greek art, or provincial minstrelsy. I embrace the common, I explore, and sit...insight into today, and you may have the antique and the future worlds." So says Emerson, once more half-right — agreeing with hisfellow-New-Englander...

...to-day his own: He who, secure within himself can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for 1 have lived to-day." Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. —EMERSON. "Just to fill the hour, that is happiness." " Happy then is the man who has that in his...

...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 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,...

...Philosophical age. With the views I have intimated of the oneness or the identity of the mind through all individuals, I do not much dwell on these differences....the pan ; the ballad in the street ; the news of the boat ; the glance of the eye ; the form and the gait of the body ; — show me the ultimate reason...

...necessity of independent thought. America with him had no prototype, no model. "Give me," he said, "insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds." I have a profound reverence for tradition, and accept humbly the lessons of experience, but in Lowell's...

...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...