Walt WhitmanSwan, Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 132 páginas |
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... natural , therefore , that we should turn to Whitman's early life to discover what were those agencies which stamped his nature with their seal . On his father's side Whitman was of good English stock HIS PERSONALITY.
... natural , therefore , that we should turn to Whitman's early life to discover what were those agencies which stamped his nature with their seal . On his father's side Whitman was of good English stock HIS PERSONALITY.
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William Clarke. On his father's side Whitman was of good English stock , possessed of what he terms " the surly English pluck , and there is no tougher or truer , and never was , and never will be . " 1 Dr. Bucke tells us that the ...
William Clarke. On his father's side Whitman was of good English stock , possessed of what he terms " the surly English pluck , and there is no tougher or truer , and never was , and never will be . " 1 Dr. Bucke tells us that the ...
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... side , lived to a great age , and when left a widow , managed her own farm lands , and herself directed the labour of her slaves , for there were slaves in the colony then . Of his two grandmothers , one was a Quakeress of beautiful ...
... side , lived to a great age , and when left a widow , managed her own farm lands , and herself directed the labour of her slaves , for there were slaves in the colony then . Of his two grandmothers , one was a Quakeress of beautiful ...
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... side , and have some of my happiest hours on it to this day . " ( Written in 1882. ) While living in Brooklyn from 1836 to 1850 , he tells us , he loved to go to a bare , un- frequented shore , bathe and race up and down the hard sand ...
... side , and have some of my happiest hours on it to this day . " ( Written in 1882. ) While living in Brooklyn from 1836 to 1850 , he tells us , he loved to go to a bare , un- frequented shore , bathe and race up and down the hard sand ...
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... side . Romance , fierce and bloody though it may be , has an inspiration for men on the battlefield ; but how many can possess their souls amid the stern realities of the hospital without any adventitious help or charm ? Goethe found a ...
... side . Romance , fierce and bloody though it may be , has an inspiration for men on the battlefield ; but how many can possess their souls amid the stern realities of the hospital without any adventitious help or charm ? Goethe found a ...
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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.