I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It meets the demand I am always making of what seems the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much... The Review of Reviews - Page 261edited by - 1891Full view - About this book
| John Macleay Peacock - 1880 - 198 pages
...Leaven of Grax* as "the most extraordinary piece of Wit and Wisdom that America has yet contributed. ... I have great joy. in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be." In order that the purpose of the pamphlet may be effected, the co-operation of all lovers of WHITMAN'S... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1881 - 44 pages
...Leaves of Grass as "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed ... I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be." BUSKIN writes that the hostility WHITMAN'S writings have excited is due to the fact that "they are... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pages
... " It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament...mean. I give you joy of your free and brave thought." This was written in July, 1855. By Emerson's suggestion, being about to visit New York, I went to see... | |
| 1883 - 436 pages
...wisdom that America has yet contributed.' ' I give you joy,' he wrote with his usual cheeriness, ' of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in...well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment * Notes on WaU Whitman, pp. 15-16. which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.... | |
| 1883 - 680 pages
...wisdom that America has yet contributed.' ' I give you joy,' he wrote with his usual cheeriuess,' of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in...well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment * Notes on Walt Whitman, pp. 15-16. which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.... | |
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pages
...Grass,""It meets the demand I am always making of what seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament...mean. I give you joy of your free and brave thought." This was written in July 1855. By Emerson's suggestion, being about to visit New York, I went to see... | |
| Richard Maurice Bucke - 1883 - 270 pages
...to indorse such a prurient and polluted work ; to address its author in such terms as these, " I give you joy of your free and brave thought I have great joy in it I wish to see my benefactor." The most charitable conclusion at which we can arrive is, that both Whitman's... | |
| 1888 - 344 pages
...wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have...incomparable things, said incomparably well, as they should be." ON THANKSGIVING DAY. THANKS in old age thanks ere I go, For health, the midday sun,... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 268 pages
...that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. . . I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have...things said incomparably well, as they must be. ... I greet you at the beginning of a great career." The second edition appeared in 1856, a much thicker... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 pages
...that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. . . I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have...things said incomparably well, as they must be. ... I greet you at the beginning of a great career." The second edition appeared in 1856, a much thicker... | |
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