 Confess that to severe eyes, using the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing meaningless antics. Confess that everywhere, in shop, street, church,...  Complete Prose Works - Page 212by Walt Whitman - 1891 - 516 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 lehte
...only justification of a great material one ? "Confess that rather to severe eyes, using' the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara...unhealthy forms, male, female, painted, padded, dyed, chignoned, muddy complexions, bad blood, the capacity for good motherhood deceasing or deceased, shallow... | |
 | 1883 - 680 lehte
...civilization—the only justification of a great material one ? Confess that to severe eyes, using the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara...are pervading flippancy and vulgarity, low cunning, infidelity—everywhere the youth puny, impudent, foppish, prematurely ripe—everywhere an abnormal... | |
 | 1883 - 436 lehte
...civilization—the only justification of a great material one ? Confess that to severe eyes, using the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara...are pervading flippancy and vulgarity, low cunning, infidelity—everywhere the youth puny, impudent, foppish, prematurely ripe—everywhere an abnormal... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 390 lehte
...civilization—the only justification of a great material one ? Confess that to severe eyes, using the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara...playing meaningless antics. Confess that everywhere, ia shop, street, church, theatre, barroom, official chair, are pervading flippancy and vulgarity, low... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 72 lehte
...abstractions, ghosts of reforms." Mr. Ruskin never said anything worse of his fellowcitizens than this : " Confess that everywhere, in shop, street, church,...painted, padded, dyed, chignon'd, muddy complexions, bad blood, the capacity for good motherhood deceasing or deceased, shallow notions of beauty, with a range... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1884 - 64 lehte
...abstractions, ghosts of reforms." Mr. Ruskin never said anything worse of his fellowcitizens than this: " Confess that everywhere, in shop, street, church,...are pervading flippancy and vulgarity, low cunning, infidelity—everywhere the youth puny, impudent, foppish, prematurely ripe—everywhere an abnormal... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1888 - 212 lehte
...— the onljT" jus.tificatian_Qta great .material one ? Confess that to severe eyes, using the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara...foppish, prematurely ripe — everywhere an abnormal libidinousng^jigiieafchy forms, male, female, painted, padded, dyed, cElgnon*d7 muddy complexions,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 334 lehte
...more and more thoroughly appointed body, and then left with little or no soul." What are our cities ? "A sort of dry and flat Sahara appears — these cities,...malformations, phantoms, playing meaningless antics." * These, and all other italics, are mine ; intended to direct attention to the main points, as I conceive... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1901 - 566 lehte
...civilization — the only justification of a great material one? Confess that to severe eyes, using the moral microscope upon humanity, a sort of dry and flat Sahara...painted, padded, dyed, chignon'd, muddy complexions, bad blood, the capacity for good motherhood deceasing or deceas'd, shallow notions of beauty, with a range... | |
 | Delos Franklin Wilcox - 1904 - 454 lehte
...phantoms, playing meaningless antics. Confess that everywhere, in shop, street, church, theatre, bar room, official chair, are pervading flippancy and vulgarity,...painted, padded, dyed, chignon'd, muddy complexions, bad blood, the capacity for good motherhood deceasing or deceas'd, shallow notions of beauty, with a range... | |
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