 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. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad...  The Present - Sida 2531843Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1838 - 536 sidor
...utterance till it is given. We rejoiced with sympathetic joy when we read that sentence in this address, " I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic,...explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." A distinguished sculptor was asked, " where when the gods had returned to Olympus, and the iconoclastic... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 sidor
...the hands and feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy and Arabia ; what is Greek art or Provencal minstrelsy...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 sidor
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy and Arabia ; what is Greek art or Proven9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore -and...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 sidor
...life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign — is it not? — of new vigour, when the extremities are made active, when currents...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of. The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan... | |
 | 1847 - 340 sidor
...the surest indication of the poet. ' I ask not,' says the great spiritual philosopher of America ; ' I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 sidor
...great stride. It is a sign—is it not ?—of new vigour, when the extremities are made active—when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet....insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 sidor
...through poetry and art, through philosophy and science, through church and state. One of these signs is the fact, that the same movement which effected...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 sidor
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provenqal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 sidor
...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...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of ? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1847 - 344 sidor
...great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provensal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit...insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin ; the milk in the pan... | |
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