The Writings of John Burroughs: Whitman: a studyHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1896 |
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... kind of a man that so attracted Walt Whitman that he was constantly to be seen perched on the box alongside one of them going up and down Broadway . I often watched the poet and driver , as probably did many another New Yorker in 24 ...
... kind of a man that so attracted Walt Whitman that he was constantly to be seen perched on the box alongside one of them going up and down Broadway . I often watched the poet and driver , as probably did many another New Yorker in 24 ...
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... kind of a man . It seems to me now that we looked at Whitman simply as a kind of crank , if the word had then been invented . His talk to us was chiefly of books , and the men who wrote them : especially of poetry , and what he ...
... kind of a man . It seems to me now that we looked at Whitman simply as a kind of crank , if the word had then been invented . His talk to us was chiefly of books , and the men who wrote them : especially of poetry , and what he ...
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... kind of characters I had met there , and the flavor of the life of remote settlements in Maine or Canada . His inward , subjective life was ample of itself ; he was familiar with all your thoughts and speculations be- forehand : what he ...
... kind of characters I had met there , and the flavor of the life of remote settlements in Maine or Canada . His inward , subjective life was ample of itself ; he was familiar with all your thoughts and speculations be- forehand : what he ...
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... kind that tries a man's mettle , and brings out his heroic traits if he has any . One almost envies him his unpopularity . It was of the kind that only the greatest ones have experienced , and that attests something extraordinary in the ...
... kind that tries a man's mettle , and brings out his heroic traits if he has any . One almost envies him his unpopularity . It was of the kind that only the greatest ones have experienced , and that attests something extraordinary in the ...
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... kind . He was as tolerant of your criticism as of your praise . Selfishness , in any unworthy sense , he had none . Offensive arrogance and self- assertion , in his life there was none . His egotism is of the large generous species that ...
... kind . He was as tolerant of your criticism as of your praise . Selfishness , in any unworthy sense , he had none . Offensive arrogance and self- assertion , in his life there was none . His egotism is of the large generous species that ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
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Página 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?
Página 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...