...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...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 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;...

...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...

...that to the soul there is no great and small, no high and low. "I embrace the common, I explore it and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In "The Sphinx" he declares that "The fiend that man harries Is love of the Best;" and here he says...

...understanding of the mechanic arts" (Complete Works 12:122). When in "The American Scholar" Emerson remarks, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low," he has in mind studying the form and order of natural commonplaces as Michelangelo studied anatomy....

...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...

...themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts. ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...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....

...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...

...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...

...some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and ?**• through philosophy and science, through church and...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...