 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
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | Gordon Hutner - 1999 - 632 pages
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 | John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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 | Ivan Gaskell - 2000 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Meiklejohn - 2000 - 460 pages
...than all foreign parts. ... 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." Boo\s for General Reading and Discussion: (1) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser. Liveright. $1.00.... | |
 | Jason A. Frank, John Tambornino - 368 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Klevan - 2000 - 252 pages
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 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pages
...art, or Provengal 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 eye; the form and the gait of the body — show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the... | |
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