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. Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Página 108de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 372 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Pascal Covici - 1997 - 252 páginas
...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... | |
| Edward Craig - 1998 - 900 páginas
...Although he is often termed a 'transcendental, ist', Emerson does not wish to transcend the common world. 'I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...today and you may have the antique and future worlds.' 'An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge', commonly known as the... | |
| Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 315 páginas
...self-conscious refusal of cosmopolitanism — a refusal that situates Williams alongside Cavell's Emerson ("I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...meaning of? The meal in the firkin,- the milk in the pan,the ballad in the street,- the news of the boat . . .").60 Compare the "Prologue" to Kora in Hell,... | |
| Dorothy C. Broaddus - 1999 - 164 páginas
...understanding of the mechanic arts" (Complete Works 12:122). When in "The American Scholar" Emerson remarks, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low," he has in mind studying the form and order of natural commonplaces as Michelangelo studied anatomy.... | |
| Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 páginas
...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... | |
| Alexander Meiklejohn - 2000 - 460 páginas
...themselves for long journeys into far countries, is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts. ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...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 páginas
...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... | |
| John Dizikes - 2002 - 374 páginas
...arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic. I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...today, and you may have the antique and future worlds. Emerson's proclamation rang down through succeeding generations because it touched on ideas deeply... | |
| Tracy B. Strong - 2002 - 236 páginas
...being? 2 Rousseau and the Experience of Others I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic. ... I embrace the common. I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? RW Emerson,... | |
| Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 páginas
...one day gives, another takes." — George "Give me today, and take tomorrow." — St. John Chrysostom "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." — Nietzsche "For there is no day however beautiful which has not its night." — Anonymous "Many... | |
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