Walt WhitmanSwan, Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 132 páginas |
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... ideas , of its moving forces , of its hopes and destiny , must find an interest in tracing the early influences which helped to mould the poet's body and character . The modern scientific doctrine of the effect of environ- ment is ...
... ideas , of its moving forces , of its hopes and destiny , must find an interest in tracing the early influences which helped to mould the poet's body and character . The modern scientific doctrine of the effect of environ- ment is ...
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... ideas of Hegel , and with the writings of Carlyle , Emerson , Tennyson , Arnold , and others of the more significant ... idea of him and of the formative influences which moulded his life . We see in him the genuine democrat of the very ...
... ideas of Hegel , and with the writings of Carlyle , Emerson , Tennyson , Arnold , and others of the more significant ... idea of him and of the formative influences which moulded his life . We see in him the genuine democrat of the very ...
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... ideas , pur- pose , culture , do not furnish the requisite conditions for the solution of the human problem . So far Mr. Arnold is right . But when he contends that America has solved the political and social problems , we must demur ...
... ideas , pur- pose , culture , do not furnish the requisite conditions for the solution of the human problem . So far Mr. Arnold is right . But when he contends that America has solved the political and social problems , we must demur ...
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... idea of vast products with that of interdependence , so that the wealth of one shall not be an isolated phenomenon , but shall necessitate the wealth of others . How far America is from this ideal to - day is well known . She may ...
... idea of vast products with that of interdependence , so that the wealth of one shall not be an isolated phenomenon , but shall necessitate the wealth of others . How far America is from this ideal to - day is well known . She may ...
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... ideas nor those of any other great religious teacher can be appreciated by those brutalised by daily scrambling for the bare necessaries of life . What is it to be spiritual but to be heroic ? The very poor , after years of hopeless ...
... ideas nor those of any other great religious teacher can be appreciated by those brutalised by daily scrambling for the bare necessaries of life . What is it to be spiritual but to be heroic ? The very poor , after years of hopeless ...
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Página 23 - I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States.
Página 42 - With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys, And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
Página 71 - But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain, or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being.
Página 24 - The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism. In fashionable life, flippancy, tepid amours, weak infidelism, small aims, or no aims at all, only to kill time. In business, (this all-devouring modern word, business,) the one sole object is, by any means, pecuniary gain. The magician's serpent in the fable ate up all the other serpents; and money-making is our magician's serpent, remaining to-day sole master of the field.
Página 58 - Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset— earth of the mountains mistytopt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Página 71 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Página 25 - Texas, California, Alaska, and reach north for Canada and south for Cuba. It is as if we were somehow being endow'd with a vast and more and more thoroughly-appointed body, and then left with little or no soul.
Página 109 - Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms, Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me...
Página 59 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Página 71 - It creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.