Walt WhitmanSwan, Sonnenschein & Company, 1892 - 132 pages |
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... existence of slavery in New York at that time , and the possession by the family of some twelve or fifteen slaves , house and field servants , gave things quite a patriarchal look . The very young darkies could be seen , a swarm of them ...
... existence of slavery in New York at that time , and the possession by the family of some twelve or fifteen slaves , house and field servants , gave things quite a patriarchal look . The very young darkies could be seen , a swarm of them ...
Page 86
... existence , to thwart any such aims . On the other hand , men cannot be allowed to injure their neighbours ' health , to work them as they please , for their own profit , to subject them to starvation . You can preach a new religion to ...
... existence , to thwart any such aims . On the other hand , men cannot be allowed to injure their neighbours ' health , to work them as they please , for their own profit , to subject them to starvation . You can preach a new religion to ...
Page 87
... existence , curtail the free ac- tion of society . The democratic State can allow full swing to social activities , to voluntary reforming , re- ligious , or æsthetic agencies , working freely among the people ; but the despotic State ...
... existence , curtail the free ac- tion of society . The democratic State can allow full swing to social activities , to voluntary reforming , re- ligious , or æsthetic agencies , working freely among the people ; but the despotic State ...
Page 110
... existence ; in which case the only question is whether the existence is worth the price . That , of course , can only be answered in two ways . We put the question by , it is true , trifle with it , ignore it , take to our cakes and ale ...
... existence ; in which case the only question is whether the existence is worth the price . That , of course , can only be answered in two ways . We put the question by , it is true , trifle with it , ignore it , take to our cakes and ale ...
Page 122
... existence on this theory . We are to work , then , for the present and the future of mankind . Very good ; everyone agrees to this , from the devoted fanatical Nihilist who has well - nigh forgotten his very personality in enthusiasm ...
... existence on this theory . We are to work , then , for the present and the future of mankind . Very good ; everyone agrees to this , from the devoted fanatical Nihilist who has well - nigh forgotten his very personality in enthusiasm ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 71 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 71 - It creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.