 The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital nor learning may...  Specimen Days and Collect - Page 264by Walt Whitman - 1883 - 376 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 lehte
...poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it. The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature, nor swarming states, nor streets and steamships, nor prosperous business, nor farms nor capital... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1881 - 44 lehte
...It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it. The largeness of nature, or the nation, were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states, nor streets and steamships, nor prosperous business nor farms, nor capital... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 lehte
...fish, or men beget children upon women. Other states indicate themselves in their deputies — but the genius of the United States is not best or most...capital, nor learning, may suffice for the ideal of man — nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1891 - 550 lehte
...legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors, or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors — but always most in the common people,...capital, nor learning, may suffice for the ideal of man — nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1898 - 320 lehte
...poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it. The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1898 - 322 lehte
...poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it. The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital... | |
 | 1900 - 496 lehte
...legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors, or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors — but always most in the common people,...capital, nor learning, may suffice for the ideal of man — nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1901 - 566 lehte
...legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors, or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors — but always most in the common people,...capital, nor learning, may suffice for the ideal of man — nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1904 - 346 lehte
...nor in its ambassadors or authors, or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newstoapers or inventors — but always most in the common people,...capital, nor learning, may suffice for the ideal of man nor suffice the poet. No reminiscences may suffice either. A live nation can always cut a deep... | |
 | 1910 - 482 lehte
...poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it. The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen. Not nature nor swarming states nor streets and steamships nor prosperous business nor farms nor capital... | |
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