To cany on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations are powers neither common nor very uncommon. But to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals, and... Specimen Days and Collect - Page 268by Walt Whitman - 1883 - 376 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1855 - 682 lehte
...simplicity. Nothing ia better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters ie simplicity. Nothing in better than simplicity — nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of dcfinitenees". » * * Xo speak in literature, with the perfect rectitude mid the insouciance of tho... | |
| 1855 - 714 lehte
...simplicity, and tho sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity — noth,ng can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness. * * * To speak in literature, with tho perfect rectitude and the insouciance of the movements of animals and... | |
| George Scratton - 1865 - 616 lehte
...else than what they are." In his first preface to Leaves of Grass Whitman writes, "The art of arts, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. . . . To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movement of animals... | |
| Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 536 lehte
...poet is deficient or excessive in the weightier matters of sentiment and passion. XIV. WILLIAM MORRIS. 'The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine...nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of dedniteness. To carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects... | |
| 1876 - 502 lehte
...successor, and his name is Morris, not Miller. Whitman said in the strange preface to " Leaves of Grass," " The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. The greatest poet has less a marked style ; he swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome ; what I... | |
| 1880 - 690 lehte
...which is most certain of finding a responsive chord in our bosoms. 'The art of art,' says the poet, ' the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light...definiteness. To carry on the heave of impulse and fierce intellectual depths and give all subjects their articulations, are powers neither common nor... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1880 - 704 lehte
...is most certain of finding a responsive chord in our bosoms. 'The art of art,' ваув the poet, ' the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light...nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of défini teness. To carry on the heave of impulse and fierce intellectual depths and give all subjects... | |
| Walt Whitman - 1881 - 44 lehte
...own. But it has V- S " '•> £. sympathy as measureless as its pride, and the one balances 2 ' — the other, and neither can stretch too far while it...nothing can make up for excess or for the lack of defmiteness. To carry on the heave of impulse and pierce intellectual depths and give all subjects... | |
| 1882 - 1050 lehte
...If, however, he has in his choice of words sought that simplicity which (to quote his own words) is ' the art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters,' he has certainly not seldom failed to attain it, and it was hardly to be attained by pouring out indiscriminately... | |
| 1883 - 680 lehte
...own. To those who imagine so we commend the perusal of what follows from the Preface of 1855:— ' The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine...of letters, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity—nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness. To carry on the heave... | |
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