 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 Seiten
...this movement that what is most common and familiar is that to which the active soul is most drawn: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body." This is the very stuff of what we might call secular, everyday reality. It is here precisely where... | |
 | Lee T. Pearcy - 2005 - 204 Seiten
...few decorative mottoes, to mumble something in the vernacular, or to assert with Emerson the priority of "the meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body." 71 CLASSICS IN RETREAT: ALTERTUMSWISSENSCHAFT COMES TO AMERICA Both the Old College... | |
 | Philip Cafaro - 2006 - 289 Seiten
...knowledge of self, nature, and God. "What would we really know the meaning of?" he asks, and answers: "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye — Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful and wondrous than things remote.... | |
 | Roland Borgards, Almuth Hammer, Christiane Holm - 2006 - 426 Seiten
...the philosophy of the Street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. [...] VCTiat would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the bailad in the street, the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; -... | |
 | Hugh Ridley - 2007 - 319 Seiten
...thinker to 'embrace', sitting 'at the feet of the familiar, the low'. In much-quoted words he states: What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body [...] the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and... | |
 | Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey - 2007 - 210 Seiten
...here what Cavell says about a passage in 'The American Scholar' in which Emerson talks about 'the mean in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in...glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body' (quoted in SOW, p. 149). Cavell describes this passage as 'a list epitomizing what we may call the... | |
 | Randall Fuller - 2007 - 232 Seiten
...'slop-pail' level."24 Rescuing Emerson from those who would link the author's aesthetics to his celebration of "[t]he meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street" (EL 69), Holmes asserts that Emerson "was not often betrayed into the mistake of confounding the prosaic... | |
 | Katherine Ball Ross - 2007 - 336 Seiten
...read by Ralph Waldo Emerson, he had called for a new approach to American literature: "What would we know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan!" Only when I found Sarah Orne Jewett did I think I knew what he meant. What her stories suggested to... | |
 | Robert Baron, Nick Spitzer - 2010 - 399 Seiten
...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. What would we know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news... | |
 | John McCormick - 2011 - 261 Seiten
...are going to turn themselves into poets, in mystical union with all other men, because they perceive "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat..." Even in Germany reeling before the Napoleonic invasion, Fichte in his "Reden an die deutsche Nation"... | |
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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... 
