 What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in 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...  Essays, Lectures and Orations - Page 342by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Gary Storhoff - 2004 - 278 pages
...Scholar" (1837), for a writer to illuminate the wondrous possibilities of the mundane and the ordinary: "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body." 18 Charles Johnson's Syncretistic Self In his book Religion... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2010 - 288 pages
...knowledge of self, nature, and God. "What would we really know the meaning of?" he asks, and answers: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.... | |
 | 2004 - 236 pages
...minstrelsy: I embrace the common. I explore and sit at (he feet of the faimliar. the low. Give me insight mto today. and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of?" he asked. and famously answered: "The meal in the Hrkin: the milk in the pan: the ballad in the street."51... | |
 | Viviane Serfaty - 2004 - 160 pages
...art. or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common. I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. (Emerson 1849). Emerson asserts that the familiar, the trivial, the commonplace are precisely what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have...the milk in the pan, the ballad in the street; the use of the boat; the glance of the eye, the form and the gait of the body; show me the ultimate reason... | |
 | Lee T. Pearcy - 2005 - 204 pages
...few decorative mottoes, to mumble something in the vernacular, or to assert with Emerson the priority of "the meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body." 71 CLASSICS IN RETREAT: ALTERTUMSWISSENSCHAFT COMES TO AMERICA... | |
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...this movement that what is most common and familiar is that to which the active soul is most drawn: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body." This is the very stuff of what we might call secular, everyday... | |
 | Thomas Gardner - 2005 - 324 pages
...her most challenging and beautiful poem. "What would we really know the meaning of?" asked Emerson: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...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 these matters; show me the... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...in "The American Scholar," in his embrace of the common, the familiar, the low. "Give me," he says, "insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (E&L 68-69). Like Wordsworth, who finds his paradise a "simple produce of the common day," Emerson... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2006 - 289 pages
...knowledge of self, nature, and God. "What would we really know the meaning of?" he asks, and answers: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye — Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.... | |
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