 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...convention and from that fatigue and despair which lurk not far beneath the surface of conventional life. In casting off with self-assurance and a sense of...that we become divine by remaining imperfectly human. Whitman gives a new expression to this ancient and multiform tendency. He proclaims the cosmic justification... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...convention and from that fatigue and despair which lurk not far beneath the surface of conventional life. In casting off with self-assurance and a sense of...that we become divine by remaining imperfectly human. Whitman gives a new expression to this ancient and multiform tendency. He proclaims the cosmic justification... | |
 | George Santayana - History - 1900 - 312 pages
...convention and from that fatigue and despair which lurk not far beneath the surface of conventional life. In casting off with self-assurance and a sense of...that we become divine by remaining imperfectly human. Walt Whitman gives a new expression to this ancient and multiform tendency. He feels his own cosmic... | |
 | Roger Sherman Loomis - American prose literature - 1925 - 576 pages
...convention and from that fatigue and despair which lurk not far beneath the surface of conventional life. In casting off with self-assurance and a sense of...that we become divine by remaining imperfectly human. Walt Whitman gives a aew expression to this ancient and multiform tendency. He feeii his own cosmic... | |
 | Odell Shepard - Connecticut - 1927 - 310 pages
...hair divides the true from the false. I know very well the danger pointed out by George Santayana : ' In casting off with self-assurance and a sense of...tradition and reason, a man may feel, as he sinks comfortably back to a lower level of sense and instinct, that he is returning to Nature or escaping... | |
 | Milton Hindus - Poetry, Modern - 1997 - 308 pages
...convention and from that fatigue and despair which lurk not far beneath the surface of conventional life. In casting off with self-assurance and a sense of...that we become divine by remaining imperfectly human. Walt Whitman gives a new expression to this ancierit and multiform tendency. He feels his own cosmic... | |
| |
... beauty, are prized all the more at such a time because they are not choice, but drawn perhaps from a hideous and sordid environment. For this circumstance makes them a better means of escape from convention and from that fatigue and despair which... 