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... Current Opinion - Seite 4461906Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1875 - 80 Seiten
...sweat and whine about their condition ; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins ; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth ;" and the Bowery Transcendentalist sang her creed... | |
| 1876 - 1022 Seiten
...awake in the dark and weep for their sin3 ; They do not make mo sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the...thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth." Wise men have long been, and are likely to be, content to learn... | |
| 1876 - 844 Seiten
...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...thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. Wise men have long been, and are likely to be, content to learn from... | |
| Walter Lewin - 1879 - 252 Seiten
...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 ;...thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth." Note the peculiar echo of the saying of One Other : " Consider the... | |
| 1928 - 694 Seiten
...awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Xot one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the...one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." Democracy was a passion with him: "By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart... | |
| Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 Seiten
...with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd : . I stand and look at them long and long. Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things : Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth." The Whitman method of reaching naivete is here... | |
| 1888 - 344 Seiten
...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...one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1884 - 882 Seiten
...are about the only animals in the world to whom these words will apply ; 'For,' says Whitman, 'not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.' But suppose he were taking one of his favorite night strolls in the woods of Bengal rather than of... | |
| 1884 - 926 Seiten
...they are about the only animals in the world to whom these words will apply; 'For,' says Whitman, 'not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.' But suppose he »ere taking one of his favorite night strolls in the woods of Bengal rather than of... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 Seiten
...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...one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they shew their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them... | |
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