 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 - Pàgina 342per Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 364 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 315 pàgines
...alongside Cavell's Emerson ("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...pan; the ballad in the street,, the news of the boat . . .").60 Compare the "Prologue" to Kara in Hell, with its idea of a museum of everyday paintings... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - 1999 - 315 pàgines
...alongside Cavell's Emerson ("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...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,... | |
 | Ray Broadus Browne, Michael T. Marsden - 1999 - 246 pàgines
...Emerson understood this danger when he advised us to discover the real meaning of America by examining "the meal in the firkin: the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body." Unfortunately, according to Fishwick, seeking a methodology which... | |
 | Lyndall Gordon - 1999 - 760 pàgines
...penetrated and illumined as part of one design. 'What would we really know the meaning of?' Emerson asked. 'The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...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... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Ivan Gaskell - 2000 - 274 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Jessica R. Feldman - 2002 - 292 pàgines
...the importance of domestic culture in James's work, these words from Emerson's "American Scholar": What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime... | |
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