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| Day | 1600-01-# to 2100-12-# |
people 1:152 I am not 9:128 I am not much 1:137 I never was 1:316 There’s one thing 7:65 If there’s
1:39 Of all portraits 1:131 Eakins!
a dubious 1:340–41 I don’t think he 3:500 A party may 1:341 The spirit of 1:99 I am for 1:149 We are
The true nurse 7:400 not irrational 1:294 A long day 1:299 Was I a little daffy 1:309 W.’s mind 1:347
no minister should 1:305 hung fire between 1:310 a heavenly father 1:342 grip is gone 1:354 It’s funny
1895, offering five reasons why Whitman "never seemed to me a thoroughly wholesome or manly man": (1)
Osgood on 1 March 1882: "We are of the opinion that this book is such a book as brings it within the
H[igginson], "Unmanly Manhood," Woman's Journal, 4 February 1882, 1.
"Walt Whitman: His Death on Saturday Evening—His Life and His Literary Place," , 28 March 1892, 11: 1–
Parton," 4 (December 1940): 1–8. Ward, "James Parton," 631.