The Sewanee Review, Volume 25University of the South, 1917 |
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... Never was I more agreeably disappointed . The address about Baltimore interested me in the early part by the anecdotes of the early history and wonderful growth of the city ; told , too , with pleasant dashes of humor— and it warmed and ...
... Never was I more agreeably disappointed . The address about Baltimore interested me in the early part by the anecdotes of the early history and wonderful growth of the city ; told , too , with pleasant dashes of humor— and it warmed and ...
Pagina 9
... never have stood the tumult and excitement of Washington if quartered in one of its tower of Babel hotels , but your house was like a gleam of my own home , and I could always fancy you and Mary Kennedy two of my nieces . By the way , I ...
... never have stood the tumult and excitement of Washington if quartered in one of its tower of Babel hotels , but your house was like a gleam of my own home , and I could always fancy you and Mary Kennedy two of my nieces . By the way , I ...
Pagina 11
... never enquiring again into the state of the larder . As to your sister's injunction that Phil's burst of noble ire " is all owing to his young wife , " it is just of a piece with her persecution of that virtuous couple . Her whole ...
... never enquiring again into the state of the larder . As to your sister's injunction that Phil's burst of noble ire " is all owing to his young wife , " it is just of a piece with her persecution of that virtuous couple . Her whole ...
Pagina 20
... never annex new provinces , that , like the Bourbons , they learn nothing and forget nothing ? It was said by the ancient Greeks and I know of no higher authority — that Love is the oldest of the gods . If so , we may assume , as did ...
... never annex new provinces , that , like the Bourbons , they learn nothing and forget nothing ? It was said by the ancient Greeks and I know of no higher authority — that Love is the oldest of the gods . If so , we may assume , as did ...
Pagina 21
... never reconciled , never at peace , within him . His soul is instinct with high ideals , his mind can give them definite shape ; but his feelings , like some delicately tuned Æolian harp , are swayed by impulses and responsive to ...
... never reconciled , never at peace , within him . His soul is instinct with high ideals , his mind can give them definite shape ; but his feelings , like some delicately tuned Æolian harp , are swayed by impulses and responsive to ...
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Pagina 85 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Pagina 296 - But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. 35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true ; and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
Pagina 86 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Pagina 86 - Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades.
Pagina 336 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Pagina 448 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own...
Pagina 435 - The bluebird, shifting his light load of song From post to post along the cheerless fence...
Pagina 491 - ... awake, therefore, and come away; be willing also, and I will help you off with your irons. He also told them, If he that goeth about like a roaring lion, comes by, you will certainly become a prey to his teeth. With that they looked upon him, and began to reply in this sort: Simple said, I see no danger; Sloth said, Yet a little more sleep; and Presumption said, Every tub must stand upon its own bottom.
Pagina 122 - I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them.
Pagina 86 - Be composed— be at ease with me— I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.