...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; -...

...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...

...thinker to 'embrace', sitting 'at the feet of the familiar, the low'. In much-quoted words he states: 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 gait of the body [...] the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room,...

...here what Cavell says about a passage in 'The American Scholar' in which Emerson talks about 'the mean 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' (quoted in SOW, p. 149). Cavell describes this passage as 'a...

...remote, the romantic; ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may 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...

...'slop-pail' level."24 Rescuing Emerson from those who would link the author's aesthetics to his celebration of "[t]he meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street" (EL 69), Holmes asserts that Emerson "was not often betrayed into the mistake of confounding the prosaic...

...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" (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...

...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 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...

...are going to turn themselves into poets, in mystical union with all other men, because they perceive "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat..." Even in Germany reeling before the Napoleonic invasion, Fichte in his "Reden an die deutsche Nation"...