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" I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. "
Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Página 106
de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 383 páginas
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Library Essays about Books, Bibliophiles, Writers, and Kindred Subjects

Henry Howard Harper - 1924 - 208 páginas
...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...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal le to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that may'have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the Arkin;...
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Emerson: A Study of the Poet as Seer

Robert Malcolm Gay - 1928 - 276 páginas
...that to the soul there is no great and small, no high and low. "I embrace the common, I explore it and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give...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...
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The American Labor Legislation Review, Volume 7

1917 - 716 páginas
...a small ocean." He might also have said the man is a small government. In this same address he said "Give me insight into to-day and you may have the antique and the future worlds." And within a quarter of a century after Emerson delivered his address on The American...
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The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: From Howells to ...

Donald Pizer - 1995 - 310 páginas
...Domestically, the origins of realism can be traced back through famous passages of Ralph Waldo Emerson (such as "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street . . .") and Joel Barlow's "Hasty Pudding," arriving ultimately at 1610 or 1607 (if we settle for English-language...
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Emerson's Literary Criticism

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 páginas
...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...
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Charles Ives and His World

James Peter Burkholder - 1996 - 470 páginas
...great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provençal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...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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Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920

David E. Shi - 1996 - 410 páginas
...and he enthusiastically sanctioned their efforts: "I ask not for the great, remote, the romantic ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." This romantic celebration of the actualities of common life, however tentative, vicarious, or celestial,...
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Analysis and Assessment, 1940-1979

Cary D. Wintz - 1996 - 522 páginas
...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low . . . the literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning...
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 páginas
...gesture is one that strategically claims the ordinary domestic world as the fit domain of the poetic: I embrace the 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 meaning of? The meal...
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