 | Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 lehte
...to first issue of " LEAVES OF GRASS." Brooklyn, NY AMERICA does not repel the past, or what the past has produced under its forms, or amid other politics,...religions — accepts the lesson with calmness — is not impatient because the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature, while the life which... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 390 lehte
...to first issue of " LEAVES OF GRASS." Brooklyn, NY AMERICA does not repel the past, or what the past has produced under its forms, or amid other politics, or the idea of castes, or the old religions—accepts the lesson with calmness—is not impatient because the slough still sticks to... | |
 | 1900 - 496 lehte
...well-founded exception. PREFACE* TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" AMERICA does not repel the past, or what the past has produced under its forms, or amid other politics,...religions — accepts the lesson with calmness — is not impatient because the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature, while the life which... | |
 | 1900 - 514 lehte
...well-founded exception PREFACE* TO "LEAVES OF GRASS" AMERICA does not repel the past, or what the past has produced under its forms, or amid other politics,...religions — accepts the lesson with calmness — is not impatient because the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature, while the life which... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1901 - 566 lehte
...issue of Leaves of Grass, the past has produced under its forms, or Brooklyn, NT am;j otjjer pO]itiCSj or the idea of castes, or the old religions — accepts the lesson with calmness — is not impatient because the slough still sticks to opinions and manners in literature, while the life which... | |
 | 1906 - 468 lehte
...mould them into "modern American physiognomy.'" "America does not repel the past, or what the past has produced under its forms, or amid other politics,...religions — accepts the lesson with calmness — is not impatient because the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature, while the life which... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1904 - 346 lehte
..."LEAVES OF GRASS" [From " Leaves of Orcui," 1855] AMERICA does not repel the past, or what the past has produced under its forms, or amid other politics,...religions — accepts the lesson with calmness — is not impatient because the slough still sticks to opinions and manners in literature, while the life which... | |
 | 1902 - 908 lehte
...mould them into "modern American physiognomy."9 "America does not repel the past, or what the past has produced under its forms, or amid other politics,...religions — accepts the lesson with calmness — is not impatient because the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature, while the life which... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 lehte
...arms than for coats-of-arms. October, 1827. PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS BY WALT WHITMAN. (1855) AMERICA does not repel the past or what it has produced under...or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the •AAold religions . . . accepts the lesson with calmness ... is not so impatient as has been supposed... | |
 | Carleton Eldredge Noyes - 1910 - 262 lehte
...public — the opening sentence of the Preface of the first edition of his poems — reads : "America does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms." A period of seven or eight years was the time of gestation of the book, following upon a long apprenticeship... | |
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... the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature, while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms — perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house... 
