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 or effect... The Scottish Review - Page 2081883Full view - About this book
| American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...channel of thought and things, without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. Ho swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will...any elegance, or effect, or originality to hang in tho way between me and the rest, like curtains. What I feel, I feel for precisely what it is. Let who... | |
| 1855 - 714 pages
...marked style, and is more the channel of thought and things, without increase or diminut,on, 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 clegance,or effect.or originality to hang in tho way between me and the rest, like curtains. What I... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 682 pages
...marked style, and is more tho channel of thought and tiling, without mercase or diminution, and is tho free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not bo meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance, or effect, or originality to'hang in the... | |
| Cheltenham College - Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1868 - 412 pages
...Again, " The art of art, the glory of expression and sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity. . . He swears to his art I will not be meddlesome. I will...in the way between me and the rest, like curtains. What I tell, I tell for precisely what it is." He is on good terms with modern science. ' If there... | |
| Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1868 - 464 pages
...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, —...richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or sooth, I will have purposes as health or heat... | |
| Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1881 - 44 pages
...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 —...richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or soothe, I will have purposes as health or... | |
| Periodicals - 1883 - 436 pages
...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...tell I tell for precisely for what it is. Let who may «xalt or startle or fascinate or soothe, I will have purposes as health or heat or snow has, and be... | |
| Walt Whitman - Poets, American - 1883 - 390 pages
...mark'd 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...richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or soothe, I will have purposes as health or... | |
| Walt Whitman - American essays - 1882 - 412 pages
...mark'd 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...richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or startle or fascinate or soothe, I will have purposes as health or... | |
| Walt Whitman - American poetry - 1891 - 538 pages
...mark'd 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...originality, to hang in the way between me and the resFTike curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell I tell... | |
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