The Writings of John Burroughs: Whitman: a studyHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1896 |
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... and its author carried themselves under the sun , and in the way they con- fronted America and the present time , that convinced beyond the power of logic or criticism . The more I saw of Whitman , and the more 4 WHITMAN.
... and its author carried themselves under the sun , and in the way they con- fronted America and the present time , that convinced beyond the power of logic or criticism . The more I saw of Whitman , and the more 4 WHITMAN.
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... present horse - cars . He usually had his primary education in the country , and graduated as a thorough expert in managing a very difficult machine , in an excep- tionally busy thoroughfare . " It was this kind of a man that so ...
... present horse - cars . He usually had his primary education in the country , and graduated as a thorough expert in managing a very difficult machine , in an excep- tionally busy thoroughfare . " It was this kind of a man that so ...
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... present ; never the main fact , the paramount con- dition , tyrannizing over all the affairs of national and individual life , but only an episode , a passing interruption ; and the poet , who in our day would be as true to his nation ...
... present ; never the main fact , the paramount con- dition , tyrannizing over all the affairs of national and individual life , but only an episode , a passing interruption ; and the poet , who in our day would be as true to his nation ...
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... is the final word of the past and of the present . - II The shadow of Whitman's self - reliance and heroic self - esteem the sort of eddy or back - water was i undoubtedly a childlike fondness for praise and for seeing his 92 WHITMAN.
... is the final word of the past and of the present . - II The shadow of Whitman's self - reliance and heroic self - esteem the sort of eddy or back - water was i undoubtedly a childlike fondness for praise and for seeing his 92 WHITMAN.
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... present purposes , we may say there are two phases of art , formal art and creative art . By formal art I mean that which makes a direct appeal to our sense of form , our sense of the finely carved , the highly wrought , the deftly ...
... present purposes , we may say there are two phases of art , formal art and creative art . By formal art I mean that which makes a direct appeal to our sense of form , our sense of the finely carved , the highly wrought , the deftly ...
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æsthetic aims American artistic beautiful beauty disease beget body breath bring called candor character charity cism common conventional cosmic cracy critic culture death democracy democratic divine earth egoism egotism elements Emerson emotion equal evil eyes face faith feel flowers formal art give Goethe Gosse hand heroic heroic nudity human ideal ideas impression John Addington Symonds Leaves of Grass less literary literature lives look man's manly matter meaning ment mind modern mother nature never open air passion personality pietism poems poet poet's poetic poetry pride prophetic qualities race reader real things reality refinement religion religious savage says seems sense Shakespeare social social equality soldiers soul speaks spirit stand suggestion sweet taste Tennyson thought tion traits triumph ture uncon universal utterance verse vital voice Walt Whitman Whit whole words wounded writing
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Seite 47 - For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Seite 105 - Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems. You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books...
Seite 224 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
Seite 194 - I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs, Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen...
Seite 46 - States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads With the waiting depot...
Seite 207 - Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
Seite 47 - I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong deliveress, When it is so, when thou hast taken them I joyously sing the dead, Lost in the loving floating ocean of thee, Laved in the flood of thy bliss O death. From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
Seite 253 - I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots, And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over...
Seite 60 - Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul; Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it ! 14 Whoever you are, to you endless announcements ! Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
Seite 138 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers ; the composition of...