 ... poetry" in which the reader must make the rhythms which the poet has not made for him, then I think we had better continue literary colonists. I shrink from a lawless independence to which all the virile energy and trampling audacity of Mr. Whitman...  The Atlantic Monthly - Pàgina 3901890Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1891 - 592 pàgines
...Young America of Walt Whitman's verse to a three-year-old colt. " He is a droll object, sprawling on the grass with his four hoofs in the air ; but he...it won't harm us. So let him roll — let him roll ! " I quote the audacious words with positive terror lest one of those hoofs should visit me in the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 472 pàgines
...his rhapsodies, Number Seven, our " cracked Teacup, " says they sound to him like " fugues played on a big organ which has been struck by lightning." So...is the object of the greatest interest. Everybody wauts to be her friend, and she has room enough in her hospitable nature to find a place for every... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 334 pàgines
...his rhapsodies, Number Seven, our "cracked Teacup," says they sound to him like " fugues played on a big organ which has been struck by lightning." So...roll! Of all The Teacups around our table, Number Fire is the one who is the object of the greatest interest. Everybody wants to be her friend, and she... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 358 pàgines
...his rhapsodies, Number Seven, our " cracked Teacup, " says they sound to him like " fugues played on a big organ which has been struck by lightning." So...won't harm us. So let him roll, —^ let him roll I Of all The Teacups around our table, Number Five is the one who is the object of the greatest interest.... | |
 | 1891 - 806 pàgines
...tree is an underground creature, with its tail in the air. All its intelligence is in its roots. . . . I shrink from a lawless independence to which all...it won't harm us. So let him roll — let him roll ! " The "occasional evening call" which Dr. Holmes tells us he will yet make, may it be frequent now... | |
 | 1891 - 524 pàgines
...is room for everybody and everything in our huge hemisphere. Young America is like a three-year old colt with his saddle and bridle just taken off. The...it won't harm us. So let him roll — let him roll ! " The " occasional evening call " which Dr. Holmes tells us he will yet make, may it be frequent... | |
 | 1891 - 530 pàgines
...off. The first thing he wants to do is to roll. He is a droll object, sprawling in the grass with bis four hoofs in the air ; but he likes it, and it won't harm us. So let him roll — let him roll ! " The " occasional evening call " which Dr. Holmes tells us he will yet make, may it be frequent... | |
 | 1895 - 850 pàgines
...observance of old-established laws of rhyme and rhythm. He did not hesitate to compare young America to a three-year-old colt with his saddle and bridle just...it won't harm us. So let him roll — let him roll I Opinions so directly contrary in many respects to the main direction of American movement brought... | |
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