 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
 | Cary D. Wintz - 1996 - 522 pages
...poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life . . . Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds . . ." The invocation of the great Emerson does not, of course, answer the attitude of the "Ivory Tower"... | |
 | Regina Bendix - 1997 - 324 pages
...the virtue of the common: 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... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight to-day, and you may have antique and future worlds. What would we really know...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; — show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the ultimate... | |
 | Ruth Anna Putnam - 1997 - 430 pages
...the importance of domestic culture in James's work, these words from Emerson's "American Scholar": 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; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime... | |
 | James Longenbach - 1997 - 222 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... | |
 | Lee Rust Brown - 1997 - 306 pages
..."The American Scholar" when he speaks of embracing the common and sitting at the feet of the familiar: "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" (CW1:67). This same proximity to common things reappears as an... | |
 | Pascal Covici - 1997 - 252 pages
...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books" (67). "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (78). Note the rapidity of, the shock in, Emerson's sudden juxtapositions. Both parts of them turn... | |
 | Sigrid Bauschinger - 1998 - 238 pages
...doing in Italy or Arabia; [...]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.61 Emerson was unfamiliar with the Austrian novelist Adalbert... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1998 - 398 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 today, and you may have...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eyes; the form and gait of the body — show me the ultimate reason for these matters.20 Emerson's... | |
 | Cathryn Essinger - 1998 - 108 pages
...from "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar." The second epigraph asks, "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat." Emerson and Essinger demand "insight into to-day," desiring to know "the sublime presence of the highest... | |
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