The greatest poet has less a marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art — I will not be meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance,... The Cheltonian - Page 220by Cheltenham College - 1868Full view - About this book
| Walt Whitman - 2005 - 192 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
| Walt Whitman - 2007 - 471 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will not 205 have in my writing any elegance, or effect, or originality, to hang in the way between me and the... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 522 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
| Norman Foerster - 1928 - 304 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what... | |
| 1906 - 1148 lehte
...channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I...in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have purposes as health and heat or snow has, and be as regardless of observation. You shall... | |
| 1911 - 762 lehte
...thing turns up in its own proper time and its own place. * * * *" Whitman: "The great poet * * * * swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome. I will...in the way between me and the rest like curtains.' Wagner: "Need being at the root of things, at the other pole we find fashion and custom * * * *" and... | |
| John Haiman - 1998 - 231 lehte
...George Orwell. The first inveighed against all "style" in the introduction to his Leaves of Grass: "l will not have in my writing any elegance or effect...in the way between me and the rest, like curtains. l will have nothing in the way, not the richest curtains. What l tell, l tell precisely for what it... | |
| 1921 - 646 lehte
...the roadside, is the flawless triumph of art I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect of originality to hang in the way between me and the rest like curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. His art is to be "the free channel of... | |
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