... 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 - Sida 3901890Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1915 - 382 sidor
...literarycolonists. . . . But there is room for everybody and everything in our huge hemisphere. YoungAmerica is like a threeyear-old colt with his saddle and bridle...it won't harm us. So let him roll, — let him roll ! I have always believed in life rather than books. I suppose every day of earth, with its hundred... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1915 - 360 sidor
...literarycolonists. . . . But there is room for everybody and everything in our huge hemisphere. YoungAmerica is like a threeyear-old colt with his saddle and bridle...won't harm us. So let him roll, — let him roll! I have always believed in life rather than books. I suppose every day of earth, with its hundred thousand... | |
| Michael A. Weinstein - 2006 - 216 sidor
...room for everybody and everything in our hemisphere" and compares "young America" to an unsaddled colt "sprawling in the grass with his four hoofs in the...won't harm us. So let him roll, — let him roll" (238). Although he acknowledges the danger of forthputting to the civilized respect for liberty and... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 336 sidor
...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...enough in her hospitable nature to find a place for eveiy one who is worthy of the privilege. The difficulty is that it is so hard to be her friend without... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1895 - 896 sidor
...bridle just taken off. The first thing he wimts to do is to roll. He is a droll object, sprawling in tho grass with his four hoofs in the air ; but he likes...it won't harm us. So let him roll— let him roll ! Opinions so directly contrary in many respects to the main direction of American movement brought... | |
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