 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
 | 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
...or Provencal ministrelsy. 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 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...or Provengal 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...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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may'have With cooling milk, we make the sweet repast. ICO No carving to be done, no knife to grat Arkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye;... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 pages
...or Proven9al minstrelsy ; 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...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... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 pages
...small, no high and low. "I embrace the common, I explore it 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." In "The Sphinx" he declares that "The fiend that man harries Is love of the Best;" and here he says... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pages
...experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted. . . ." "Life is my dictionary." "Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. ..." These and many other such familiar epigrams are eloquent expressions of the practical idealism... | |
 | James Peter Burkholder - 1996 - 470 pages
...or Provençal 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...would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firken; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye;... | |
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