Et le soleil dessechez et noirciz; Pies, corbeaulx, nous ont les yeux cavez, Et arrachez la barbe ...
2011-12-04
mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the LARGE TESTAMENT as of one lon...
the only inadmissible expression with which Whitman had bedecked his pages. The book teems with sim...
for they were all delicacies. He could guide himself about the woods on the darkest night by the to...
for his support, and he had the winter and most of the summer at his entire disposal. For six weeks...
of the three. To hear a strain of music to see a beautiful woman, a river, a great city, or a starr...
experience in an hour. The speed of the eyesight and the hearing, and the continual industry of the...
know. And herein lies the magnanimous courage of love, that it endures this knowledge without chang...
called, with unexcelled imaginative justice of language, "the huge and thoughtful night." And his b...
martyred; had the occasion come, he would have made a noble ending. As it is, he did once seek to i...
present. Pangloss, smarting under one of the worst things that ever was supposed to come from Ameri...
Sakuma contributed "a long copy of encouraging verses and off set Yoshida on foot for Nangasaki. Hi...
the 17th, he wrote to Clarinda: "Your hopes, your fears, your cares, my love, are mine; so don't mi...
Gothic city, and, above all, this Gothic church, with a race of men even more distinctly Gothic tha...
Meanwhile, whether as a man, a husband, or a poet, his steps led downward. He knew, knew bitterly, ...