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- p. iii, line 14[…] stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches . . . and that he shall be fittest for his days […]
- p. iv, line 7[…] To him the other continents arrive as contributions . . . he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake […]
- p. iv, line 9[…] sake. His spirit responds to his country's spirit . . . . he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes […]
- p. iv, line 26[…] stretches longer and the Pacific coast stretches longer he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between […]
- p. iv, line 27[…] he easily stretches with them north or south. He spans between them also from east to west and reflects […]
- p. iv, line 102[…] good and nothing in its place is bad. He bestows on every object or quality its fit proportions neither […]
- p. iv, line 103[…] quality its fit proportions neither more nor less. He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the […]
- p. iv, line 104[…] He is the arbiter of the diverse and he is the key. He is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies […]
- p. iv, line 105[…] is the equalizer of his age and land . . . . he supplies what wants supplying and checks what wants checking. If […]
- p. v, line 3[…] the stars not too far off. In war he is the most deadly force of the war. Who recruits […]
- p. v, line 5[…] war. Who recruits him recruits horse and foot . . . he fetches parks of artillery the best that engineer ever knew […]
- p. v, line 7[…] knew. If the time becomes slothful and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every word […]
- p. v, line 8[…] and heavy he knows how to arouse it . . . he can make every word he speaks draw blood. Whatever stagnates in the flat of custom […]
- p. v, line 10[…] the flat of custom or obedience or legislation he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it […]
- p. v, line 11[…] he never stagnates. Obedience does not master him, he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning […]
- p. v, line 12[…] he masters it. High up out of reach he stands turning a concentrated light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest […]
- p. v, line 13[…] light . . . he turns the pivot with his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes […]
- p. v, line 14[…] his finger . . . he baffles the swiftest runners as he stands and easily overtakes and envelops them. The time straying […]
- p. v, line 16[…] time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes […]
- p. v, line 17[…] and persiflage he withholds by his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat […]
- p. v, line 18[…] his steady faith . . . he spreads out his dishes . . . he offers the sweet firmfibred meat that grows men and women […]
- p. v, line 19[…] and women. His brain is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as […]
- p. v, line 20[…] is the ultimate brain. He is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun […]
- p. v, line 22[…] the sun falling around a helpless thing. As he sees the farthest he has the most faith. His thoughts are the hymns of […]
- p. v, line 25[…] eternity and God off of his equal plane he is silent. He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and […]
- p. v, line 27[…] like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see […]
- p. v, line 28[…] denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and women . . . he does not see men and women as dreams or dots […]
- p. v, line 40[…] of attack. What is past is past. If he does not expose superior models and prove himself by every […]
- p. v, line 41[…] superior models and prove himself by every step he takes he is not what is wanted. The presence of the greatest […]
- p. v, line 44[…] parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after him! there is not […]
- p. v, line 52[…] greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it […]
- p. v, line 54[…] with the grandeur and life of the universe. He is a seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others are […]
- p. v, line 55[…] universe. He is a seer . . . . he is individual . . . he is complete in himself . . . . the others are as good as […]
- p. v, line 56[…] in himself . . . . the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one […]
- p. v, line 57[…] only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president […]
- p. v, line 58[…] chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight does to […]
- p. v, line 59[…] regulation. What the eyesight does to the rest he does to the rest. Who knows the curious mystery of […]
- p. v, line 82[…] the beauty well enough . . probably as well as he. The passionate tenacity of hunters, woodmen, early risers, cultivators of […]
- p. vi, line 19[…] shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and […]
- p. vi, line 21[…] and manured . . . . others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master […]
- p. vi, line 23[…] His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches . . . . and shall master all attachment […]
- p. vi, line 26[…] complete lover and that is the greatest poet. He consumes an eternal passion and is indifferent which chance happens […]
- p. vi, line 34[…] All expected from heaven or from the highest he is rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or […]
- p. vi, line 38[…] love above all love has leisure and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or […]
- p. vi, line 39[…] and expanse . . . . he leaves room ahead of himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he […]
- p. vi, line 40[…] himself. He is no irresolute or suspicious lover . . . he is sure . . . he scorns intervals. His experience and the showers and thrills are […]
- p. vi, line 45[…] are corpses buried and rotten in the earth . . . . he saw them buried. The sea is not surer of the […]
- p. vi, line 47[…] shore or the shore of the sea than he is of the fruition of his love and of all […]
- p. vi, line 85[…] to be from what has been and is. He drags the dead out of their coffins and stands them […]
- p. vi, line 87[…] coffins and stands them again on their feet . . . . he says to the past, Rise and walk before me that […]
- p. vi, line 88[…] walk before me that I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes […]
- p. vi, line 89[…] I may realize you. He learns the lesson . . . . he places himself where the future becomes present. The greatest poet […]
- p. vi, line 93[…] his rays over character and scenes and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that […]
- p. vi, line 94[…] and passions . . . he finally ascends and finishes all . . . he exhibits the pinnacles that no man can tell what they […]
- p. vi, line 95[…] what they are for or what is beyond . . . . he glows a moment on the extremest verge. He is most […]
- p. vi, line 96[…] he glows a moment on the extremest verge. He is most wonderful in his last half-hidden smile or frown […]
- p. vi, line 101[…] does not moralize or make applications of morals . . . he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which […]
- p. vii, line 21[…] diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I […]
- p. vii, line 46[…] an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and forever who contributes the greatest original […]
- p. vii, line 77[…] affluent man is. The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out […]
- p. vii, line 78[…] man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself […]
- p. vii, line 90[…] lifted him first and brace him best . . . . there he returns after all his goings and comings. The sailor and […]
- p. viii, line 36[…] great master has nothing to do with miracles. He sees health for himself in being one of the mass […]
- p. viii, line 37[…] for himself in being one of the mass . . . . he sees the hiatus in singular eminence. To the perfect shape […]
- p. viii, line 41[…] to correspond with it. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great . . . . that […]
- p. ix, line 30[…] else. The owner of the library is not he who holds a legal title to it having bought and […]
- p. ix, line 110[…] greatest poet sees and admits these economies as he sees the economies of food and sleep, but has higher […]
- p. ix, line 112[…] has higher notions of prudence than to think he gives much when he givesa few slight attentions at the latch of the gate […]
- p. xi, line 25[…] following the direct, and what evil or good he does leaping onward and waiting to meet him again—and […]
- p. xi, line 30[…] would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with […]
- p. xi, line 32[…] age as with vast oceanic tides . . . . . and if he does not attract his own land body and soul to […]
- p. xi, line 35[…] muscle into its merits and demerits . . . and if he be not himself the age transfigured . . . . and if to him […]
- p. xi, line 59[…] and the left hand for his sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the […]
- p. xi, line 60[…] sake? Is he beloved long and long after he is buried? Does the young man think often of him […]
- p. xi, line 72[…] but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority and rest […]
- p. xi, line 75[…] no such terminus does the greatest poet bring . . . he brings neither cessation or sheltered fatness and ease. The touch […]
- p. xi, line 78[…] The touch of him tells in action. Whom he takes he takes with firm sure grasp into live regions previously unattained […]
- p. xii, line 67[…] individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul […]
- p. xii, line 73[…] that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it […]
- p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
- p. 19, line 2On a bank lounged the trapper . . . . he was dressed mostly in skins . . . . his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck,
- p. 19, line 8And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
- p. 19, line 13He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and passed north,
- p. 20, line 12The negro that drives the huge dray of the stoneyard . . . . steady and tall he stands poised on one leg on the stringpiece,
- p. 20, line 14His glance is calm and commanding . . . . he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
- p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;
- p. 21, line 22The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
- p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
- p. 21, line 31He turns his quid of tobacco, his eyes get blurred with the manuscript;
- p. 22, line 10The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,
- p. 22, line 24The drover watches his drove, he sings out to them that would stray,
- p. 22, line 32The President holds a cabinet council, he is surrounded by the great secretaries,
- p. 23, line 4The fare-collector goes through the train—he gives notice by the jingling of loose change,
- p. 27, line 3I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
- p. 27, line 33I am he attesting sympathy;
- p. 39, line 2How he knuckled tight and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
- p. 39, line 4How he saved the drifting company at last,
- p. 39, line 22I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person,
- p. 40, line 12Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general . . . . he furiously waves with his hand,
- p. 40, line 13He gasps through the clot . . . . Mind not me . . . . mind . . . . the entrenchments.
- p. 41, line 13Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.
- p. 41, line 24We have not struck, he composedly cried, We have just begun our part of the fighting.
- p. 42, line 7He was not hurried . . . . his voice was neither high nor low,
- p. 42, line 29What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the prison ships,
- p. 42, line 30What burnt the gums of the redcoat at Saratoga when he surrendered his brigades,
- p. 44, line 6The friendly and flowing savage . . . . Who is he?
- p. 44, line 7Is he waiting for civilization or past it and mastering it?
- p. 44, line 8Is he some southwesterner raised outdoors? Is he Canadian?
- p. 44, line 9Is he from the Mississippi country? or from Iowa, Oregon or California? or from the mountains? or prairie life or bush-life? or from the sea?
- p. 44, line 10Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
- p. 44, line 11They desire he should like them and touch them and speak to them and stay with them.
- p. 45, line 19I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs,
- p. 46, line 12Selling all he possesses and traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery:
- p. 46, line 25Now the performer launches his nerve . . . . he has passed his prelude on the reeds within.
- p. 48, line 13Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
- p. 48, line 17Accepting the gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
- p. 51, line 12He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,
- p. 52, line 29He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
- p. 52, line 30He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
- p. 53, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me . . . . he knows me pretty well,
- p. 53, line 24My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
- p. 55, line 26The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me . . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.
- p. 59, line 2The naive . . . . the simple and hardy . . . . he going to the polls to vote . . . . he who has a good time, and he who has a bad time;
- p. 59, line 24The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees . . . . and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever and each acre of surface and space forever,
- p. 66, line 10He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
- p. 66, line 20He is decently put away . . . . is there anything more?
- p. 66, line 21He was a goodfellow,
- p. 67, line 3To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers . . and he there takes no interest in them.
- p. 68, line 8The guest that was coming . . . . he waited long for reasons . . . . he is now housed,
- p. 68, line 9He is one of those who are beautiful and happy . . . . he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
- p. 68, line 27The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
- p. 70, line 15The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
- p. 71, line 1The murderer that is to be hung next day . . . . how does he sleep?
- p. 71, line 2And the murdered person . . . . how does he sleep?
- p. 71, line 27He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after today,
- p. 71, line 32Receive me and my lover too . . . . he will not let me go without him.
- p. 72, line 2He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
- p. 72, line 3He rises with me silently from the bed.
- p. 72, line 5I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
- p. 72, line 9I thought my lover had gone . . . . else darkness and he are one,
- p. 73, line 2Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
- p. 73, line 4His brown hair lies close and even to his head . . . . he strikes out with courageous arms . . . . he urges himself with his legs.
- p. 73, line 9Steady and long he struggles;
- p. 73, line 10He is baffled and banged and bruised . . . . he holds out while his strength holds out,
- p. 73, line 24Washington stands inside the lines . . he stands on the entrenched hills amid a crowd of officers,
- p. 73, line 25His face is cold and damp . . . . he cannot repress the weeping drops . . . . he lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes . . . . the color is blanched from his cheeks,
- p. 73, line 26He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
- p. 73, line 28He stands in the room of the old tavern . . . . the wellbeloved soldiers all pass through,
- p. 74, line 3He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another . . . . he shakes hands and bids goodbye to the army.
- p. 74, line 21Now Lucifer was not dead . . . . or if he was I am his sorrowful terrible heir;
- p. 74, line 23I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.
- p. 74, line 24Damn him! how he does defile me,
- p. 74, line 25How he informs against my brother and sister and takes pay for their blood,
- p. 74, line 26How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman.
- p. 75, line 7They warmly welcome him . . . . he is barefoot again . . . . he forgets he is welloff;
- p. 75, line 20The consumptive, the erysipalite, the idiot, he that is wronged,
- p. 78, line 1The strong sweet supple quality he has strikes through the cotton and flannel;
- p. 78, line 5The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;
- p. 78, line 20I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
- p. 78, line 23These I used to go and visit him to see . . . . He was wise also,
- p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
- p. 79, line 2He drank water only . . . . the blood showed like scarlet through the clear brown skin of his face;
- p. 79, line 3He was a frequent gunner and fisher . . . he sailed his boat himself . . . he had a fine one presented to him by a shipjoiner . . . . he had fowling-pieces, presented to him by men that loved him;
- p. 79, line 4When he went with his five sons and many grandsons to hunt or fish you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
- p. 79, line 5You would wish long and long to be with him . . . . you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
- p. 80, line 7The male is not less the soul, nor more . . . . he too is in his place,
- p. 80, line 8He too is all qualities . . . . he is action and power . . . . the flush of the known universe is in him,
- p. 80, line 12Knowledge becomes him . . . . he likes it always . . . . he brings everything to the test of himself,
- p. 80, line 13Whatever the survey . . whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here,
- p. 80, line 14Where else does he strike soundings except here?
- p. 80, line 22Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight . . . and he or she has no right to a sight?
- p. 81, line 15This is not only one man . . . . he is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns,
- p. 83, line 21The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.
- p. 85, line 23Him they immerse, and he immerses them.
- p. 86, line 2The best farms. . . . . others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,
- p. 86, line 3The noblest and costliest cities . . . . others grading and building, and he domiciles there;
- p. 86, line 6He puts things in their attitudes,
- p. 86, line 7He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,
- p. 86, line 8He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
- p. 86, line 9He is the answerer,
- p. 86, line 10What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.
- p. 86, line 14He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
- p. 86, line 15Whichever the sex . . . whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
- p. 86, line 16He has the passkey of hearts . . . . to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
- p. 86, line 17His welcome is universal . . . . the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
- p. 86, line 18The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
- p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:
- p. 86, line 21One part does not counteract another part . . . . He is the joiner . . he sees how they join.
- p. 86, line 22He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
- p. 86, line 23And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;
- p. 86, line 25He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
- p. 87, line 1He walks among the Congress . . . . and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
- p. 87, line 3And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain . . . . and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
- p. 87, line 5And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;
- p. 87, line 6No matter what the work is, that he is one to follow it or has followed it,
- p. 87, line 7No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
- p. 87, line 8The English believe he comes of their English stock,
- p. 87, line 9A Jew to the Jew he seems . . . . a Russ to the Russ . . . . usual and near . . removed from none.
- p. 87, line 10Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffeehouse claims him,
- p. 87, line 14The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him . . . . he strangely transmutes them,
- p. 88, line 31He will soon return . . . . his messengers come anon.
- p. 89, line 28I will whisper it to the Mayor . . . . he shall send a committee to England,
- p. 90, line 14And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or love or dread, that object he became,
- p. 91, line 1And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
- p. 91, line 3And all the changes of city and country wherever he went.
- p. 91, line 4His own parents . . he that had propelled the fatherstuff at night, and fathered him . . and she that conceived him in her womb and birthed him . . . . they gave this child more of themselves than that,
- p. 94, line 12It is inevitably in the man . . . . He and it are in love, and never leave each other.
- p. 95, line 9The perfect judge fears nothing . . . . he could go front to front before God,