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. Walt Whitman - Page 23by William Clarke - 1892 - 132 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walt Whitman - 1883 - 390 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1888 - 212 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, triflr/* hnllnwnesg at hfarLthgn at ' / present, and here in the United States. Genuine belief _^F... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1901 - 566 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself... | |
| Helena Born - 1902 - 136 pages
...among the blemishes revealed by the moral microscope with which he examines American civilization. " Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart...nor is humanity itself believed in. What penetrating s eye does not everywhere see through the mask ? The spectacle is appalling. We live in an atmosphere... | |
| W. H. Trimble - 1905 - 116 pages
...Democratic Vistas Whitman gives a grim illustration of the corrupt condition of modern society : — I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly...disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness of heart than at present, and here in the United States genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying... | |
| Thomas Kile Smith - 1914 - 84 pages
...by science, must be restored, brought back by the same power that caused her departure" ... (p. 76.) "Genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in ... nor is humanity itself believ'd in. What penetrating eye does not everywhere see through... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1916 - 388 pages
...the verteber to State or man, seems to me either entirely lacking, or seriously enfeebled or ungrown. I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing-^ome deep disease. Never ': was there, perhaps, morelfhonoSnessIat heart than at present,... | |
| Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1921 - 232 pages
...far from it. In one of his prose books (too little read) he says of his country: — Never was there more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. ... A scornful superciliousness rules in literature. The aim of all the litterateurs is to find something... | |
| Erik Barnouw - 1970 - 426 pages
...The messages wirelessed ten years ago have not reached some of the nearest stars. GUGUELMO MAHCONI I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face. WALT WHITMAN RECKONING The three volumes of this study, telling of an electronic tube and the fabulous... | |
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