The Writings of John Burroughs: Whitman: a studyHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1904 |
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Página 69
... social or other distinctions and accomplishments that might and regarding you from the start for your- be yours , self alone . Children were very fond of him ; and women , unless they had been prejudiced against him , were ! + ...
... social or other distinctions and accomplishments that might and regarding you from the start for your- be yours , self alone . Children were very fond of him ; and women , unless they had been prejudiced against him , were ! + ...
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... social custom and usage , the many fictions , concealments , make - believes , and subterfuges of the world of parlors and drawing- rooms . He never was an adept in what is called " good form ; " the natural man that he was shows crude ...
... social custom and usage , the many fictions , concealments , make - believes , and subterfuges of the world of parlors and drawing- rooms . He never was an adept in what is called " good form ; " the natural man that he was shows crude ...
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... conception of society , — of absolute social equality . - It embodies the modern scientific conception of the universe , as distinguished from the old theologi- . cal conception , namely , that creation is good and 84 WHITMAN.
... conception of society , — of absolute social equality . - It embodies the modern scientific conception of the universe , as distinguished from the old theologi- . cal conception , namely , that creation is good and 84 WHITMAN.
Página 104
... social usages . The fear of being uncon- [ ventional is greater with us than the fear of death . A certain evasiveness , polish , distrust of ourselves , amounting to insipidity and insincerity , is spoken of by observant foreigners ...
... social usages . The fear of being uncon- [ ventional is greater with us than the fear of death . A certain evasiveness , polish , distrust of ourselves , amounting to insipidity and insincerity , is spoken of by observant foreigners ...
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... social and domestic wants , the confined and perfumed air of an indoor life ; his mood and temper are so habitually begotten by the contemplation of the orbs and the laws and processes of universal nature , that the phrase often comes ...
... social and domestic wants , the confined and perfumed air of an indoor life ; his mood and temper are so habitually begotten by the contemplation of the orbs and the laws and processes of universal nature , that the phrase often comes ...
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æsthetic aims American artistic beautiful beauty disease beget body breath bring called candor character charity common conventional CONWAY HOUSE 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 intellectual John Addington Symonds Leaves of Grass less literary literature lives look 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 refined religion religious savage says seems sense social social equality soldiers soul speaks spirit stand standards suggestion sweet Symonds taste Tennyson thought tion traits ture uncon universal utterance verse vital voice Walt Whitman Whit whole words wounded writing
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Página 286 - And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther. A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient, They are but parts, anything is but a part. See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that, Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that.
Página 285 - Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there, I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist, And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
Página 271 - The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them. I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses, I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
Página 49 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost...
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