 I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic i what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.  NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES - 92 psl.autoriai: RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Tracy B. Strong - 2002 - 236 psl.
...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 psl.
...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... | |
 | Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck - 2001 - 278 psl.
...attention in the new economy, attention measurement will be everywhere. Every performer, Overheard. "Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds." Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" author, sports star, and politician will be painfully aware... | |
 | Ronald M. Radano - 2003 - 438 psl.
...Emerson (1903; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1968), 111, where he outlines his vision of "the common" ("I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low"). See chap. 3 of Bendix, In Search of Authenticity; and Paul F. Boiler, Jr., American Transcendentalism,... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 psl.
...is a sign, — is it not? of new vigor. . . . 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. In obvious anticipation of his eventual protege Walt Whitman, Emerson identified himself with the rich... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 psl.
...worldwide shrinking of the spirit. In the passage we have taken from "The American Scholar," Emerson says, "Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In Nature he had said, "Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous."... | |
 | Viviane Serfaty - 2004 - 160 psl.
...currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art....to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. (Emerson 1849). Emerson asserts that the familiar, the trivial, the commonplace are precisely what... | |
 | 2004 - 236 psl.
...Scholar" (1837). he wrote: "I ask not for the great. the remote. the romantic; what is Fig. 13 domg m Italy or Arabia: what is Greek art. or Provencal minstrelsy: I embrace the common. I explore and sit at (he feet of the faimliar. the low. Give me insight mto today. and you may have the antique and future... | |
 | Roger V. Bell - 2004 - 618 psl.
...foreign parts ... the philosophy of the street. ... I ask not the great, the remote, the romantic ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. . . . Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.... | |
 | Mario Maffi - 2004 - 200 psl.
...nourished therein—at the end of the century. The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson had written in 1837, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low" ("The American Scholar"), and for budding American painters and writers alike, the phrase became a... | |
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