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In the story of his life, as he tells it to us, we find him at the age of sixteen beginning a definite

The reader will have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

Do not these fragments, picked from different parts of the country, at random, give an idea of what the

The foregoing lines are but a part of the bird song.

Stedman had failed to grasp the wholeness of the work, though no finer characterization of the parts

The whole volume, in its arrangement, is pregnant with Whitman's personality, and it seems more a part

…Prefaces to "Leaves of Grass," l855, 1872, 1876…Poetry Today in America…Death of Abraham Lincoln…Stories

The parts that deal with the war have been emphasized as forming one of the most important phases of

Occasionally throughout the book, and as notable as any parts, are some of Whitman's special letters.

Here, for example, is one which tells its own story. CAMDEN, N. J., U. S. A., Dec. 20, 1881.

For our part, we hope it will remain "well enveloped" till doomsday; and as for "definition," all we

connoisseurs of his time, may obey the laws of his time, and achieve the intense and elaborated beauty of parts

The perfect poet cannot afford any special beauty of parts, or to limit himself by any laws less than

Meanwhile a strange voice parts others aside and demands for its owner that position that is only allowed

listener or beholder, to re-appear through him or her; and it offers the best way of making them a part

qualities, tumble pell-mell exhaustless and copious, with what appear to be the same disregard of parts

us in the Saturday Press, of Dec. 24, preceding, we seize upon and give to our readers, in another part

trying his hand at the edifice, the structure he has undertaken, has lazily loafed on, letting each part

have time to set—evidently building not so much with reference to any part itself, considered alone,

reference to the ensemble,—always bearing in mind the combination of the whole, to fully justify the parts

well accomplished, grasps not, sees not, any such ideal ensemble—likely sees not the only valuable part

convening of Congress every December, the members coming up from all climates, and from the uttermost parts—the

"I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, and feeling are miracles, and each part and

Doubtless in the scheme this man has built for himself the writing of poems is but a proportionate part

It parades before us a weak despair, an insistence on the irreconcileable in nature, the parting of friends

"My hands, my limbs, grow nerveless; My brain feels rack'd, bewilder'd; Let the old timbers part I will

not part I will cling fast to , O God, though the waves buffet me— Thee, , at least, I know.

Cherson, also known as Chersonesus, was a Greek colony in 6th century BC, located in the southwestern part

are not always sure you have heard aright, but somehow you feel that the very Distance is the truest part

The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

Whitman (he would not like to be called Mr., but he has done what he likes himself for the most part,

That work, or rather the important part of it—for little that has appeared since makes much difference—was

We cannot, for our part, conceive any theory of poetry which shall shut out stuff such as the Death Carol

I remembered the story of Miller at Lundy's Lane, of Bruce (was it?)

He takes the loftiest views of man, reverences all his parts, and will not have any thing omitted.

He knows how to make the heart beat at a brave story; to inflame us with just resentment over the hunted

And yet the story touches home; and if you are of the weeping order of mankind, you will certainly find

Swinburne, a great part of his work considered as verses is poor bald stuff.

Considered, not as verse, but as speech, a great part of it is full of strange and admirable merits.

Seeing in that one of the most serious and interesting parts of life, he was aggrieved that it should

himself, like the silly ostrich, the poet hastens to hide his better, and expose his more indecent parts—as

Osgood & Co. of Boston, in a handsome 382 page volume, price $2.

Esten Cooke is a Virginian, who early joined the rebellion, in which his State played so prominent a part

an English writer of the extremely popular 1861 novel, East Lynne , a sensational and melodramatic story

an English writer of the extremely popular 1861 novel, East Lynne, a sensational and melodramatic story

These changes are for the most part, as it appears to us, decided improvements, and the whole work posses

But there is another poem almost equally beautiful, which forms part of "President Lincoln's Burial Hymn

ideas that they have taken at second-hand from some one else; custom and convention play so large a part

contain the raw material out of which poems might be made; but the reader is obliged for the most part

Of the prose work which makes up the greater part of the volume, this is not the place to speak at length

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America , 2

) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing businesses in 1881–2.

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing businesses in 1881–2.

poetry, no equal celebration of the human being in his completeness-in his organic character-every part

express the cosmical character of the individual-yourself; the absolute miracle you are in all your parts

The thorough Americanism of the poem, permeating every part of it, appears as well in its literary form

It must remain an enduring part of the glory of our poet, that, as in such superb and powerful lines

O'Connor will delight the readers of the Galaxy with some charming stories.

Those who remember "The Ghost Story" in Putnam, "What Cheer" in Harpers', and his rich and affluent romance

`We have just begun our part of the fighting.' Only three guns were in use.

It is all a part of him.

and beauty of a spiritual or poetical vision; the glimpsing of that which, after all, for the most part

that if the new edition is a triumph for the poet, it has been achieved without any concession on his part

The additional verses are not so important in themselves as in the relation of parts to a completed whole

The poet has compared his work to one of those ambitious old architectural edifices, built part by part

A considerable part of his contemporaries hold him to be beneath criticism; a small circle of ardent

It is not from any lack of conscientious intention that the poet fails in part of his purpose, and instead

Glasgow, 1883. 2. Specimen Days and Collect Same author. Glasgow, 1883. 3. Poems of Walt Whitman .

the Preface of 1876, 'I have felt temporary depression more than once, for fear that in the moral parts

Following these, and forming the concluding part of the Specimen Days , is a number of memoranda written

The greater part of them are distributed under the headings—'Inscriptions,' 'Children of Adam,' 'Calamus

The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud; These become part

There is no need to revive here, even in slightest measure, any part of the old quarrel as to the ex-act

with the change of positions, etc., came the muffled sound of a pistol shot which not one hundredth part

As for the rest, some is quite formless; but for the most part there is a strongly marked and characteristic

A 'sane sensuality,' as it is called by one of his friends, is a necessary part of the ideal man.

On the whole no part of his work is more interesting than this; it is as if he were the born poet of

of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty, or the idea of liberty, be discharged from that part of the earth

A large part of the sky seemed just laid in great splashes of phosphorus.

Whatever may be said for the genius that created the peculiar style of (and, for my part, I think a great

Many persons have written down the story of their lives, so far as, in their old age, they could recollect

For his part, nothing being improper, nothing shall be suppressed. Mr.

Since then several editions have appeared with varying but for the most part small fortune.

Humane persons in different parts of the country sent him money and stores to carry on his work, and

Goethe, Gespräche mit Goethe , Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743; Spinoza, Ethics, Part

.; Goethe, Gespräche mit Goethe, Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743; Spinoza, Ethics,

It consists for the most part of fugitive pieces in prose and in verse, some gathered from magazines,

And all this has been secured without compromise on Whitman's part.

But, for the most part, we see in these pages the same hopeful, cheery, affectionate, and great-souled

The novel involves a courtesan who becomes part of the fashionable world of Paris.

—from his 'Chants Democratic,' from his Drum Taps , from his Leaves of Grass , from his 'Songs of Parting

Mere parts have been nowhere selected.

to his productions, to those Poems of his which have been here selected for us from his 'Songs of Parting

Friends,"— "Two two simple men I saw to-day on the pier, in the midst of the crowd parting the parting

Keats's (1795-1821) poem "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" (1817-18), which is an adaptation of the story

Keats's (1795-1821) poem "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" (1817-18), which is an adaptation of the story

traits, idiosyncrasy, and environment,—'there being not merely one good way of representing a great part

Suppose, however, he undertook to play the part in a cutaway coat, a plug hat, corduroy trowsers, and

It reminds one of the negro's story of the storm that blew down the house but left the roof standing.

The doctors tell us that the body is not vile, nor any of its parts; and when a genuine poet called it

The man who has a story to build will never fail for want of verbal tools; if he falters, it will be

He pursues these objects through a hundred pages of matter which remind us irresistibly of the story

This were indeed a wise precaution on his part if the intelligence were only submissive!

and am all, and believe in all: I believe Materialism is true, and Spiritualism is true—I reject no part

Spiritualism when it is united to Spiritualism; it is false, or rather defective only, when it is a mere part

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these pieces relate to the war; and they celebrate many of the experiences of the author in the noble part

When Walt Whitman, as the story goes, drove an omnibus along Broadway to oblige the regular driver, who

W ALT W HITMAN 's Drum-Taps New York. 1865. 12mo. pp. 72. 2.

it philosophy even to declare that the "sweat" and the "bowels" and "the toe-joints" are not only parts

The most remarkable part of the book is its first heart-beat: 'A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads,

Here is the story of the gallant seaman who rescued the passengers on the San Francisco:— "I understand

seems obvious in the face of a dozen such passages as the famous "Burial Hymn," or the picturesque parts

his prose style may be justly criticised as heavy and disjointed, but the intrinsic interest of the story

It is the old story of Achilles and Patroclus transferred from windy Troy to the banks of the Potomac

published many volumes of poems and compiled a number of anthologies, including Poets of America , 2

He published many volumes of poems and compiled a number of anthologies, including Poets of America, 2

Yet consider the forces that make the flower, the elements that are parts of it, the intricacy of its

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.

I wish I had room to quote all of Chainey's lecture, but a part must suffice.

Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body or any part of it!

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

"In his sight, no part or passion of the body is to be slighted or regarded as vulgar.

All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,— These are contained in sex as parts of itself

Buchanan Reade ∗ —a gracefully rhymed, imaginative story; or of another American production which, according

Here, it is occupied for the most part with dreams of the middle ages, of the old knightly and religious

The dots do not indicate any abbreviation by us, but are part of the author's singular system of punctuation

American Poets [Part 1] W E have many examples in history of a national literature built up in a dialect

American Poets Part 1