| Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 282 oldal
...adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines," into the three lines in Song of Myself. " Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Interesting as these facts may be, there is no possibility of bringing the many diverse voices into... | |
| Robert Graves - 1922 - 164 oldal
...instance, the life and letters of Keats or Wordsworth, and should justify Walt Whitman's outspoken "Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." The poet is the outsider who sees most of the game, and, by the same token, all or nearly all the great... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 oldal
...if the master minds in both are wise, may at last be reconciled. — Andrew D. White. f.» «•» Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict...am large. I contain multitudes). — Walt Whitman. IT is Criticism, as Arnold points out, that creates the intellectual atmosphere of the age. It is Criticism... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 oldal
...theology, if the master minds in both are wise, may at last be reconciled. — Andrew D. White. .-*. «» Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict...am large. I contain multitudes). — Walt Whitman. IT is Criticism, as Arnold points out, that creates the intellectual atmosphere of the age. It is Criticism... | |
| William Joseph Long - 1923 - 572 oldal
...omnivorous lines, and will not write any less; And would fetch you, whoever you are, flush with myself. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; (I am large — I contain multitudes.) The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me — he complains of my gab and my loitering. Between these... | |
| Floyd Dell - 1924 - 320 oldal
...thinking one way and living another; or, for that matter, thinking in a dozen different ways at once. "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." "I contain multitudes." The discovery has been made before. Comedies and tragedies have been made out... | |
| Bruce Weirick - 1924 - 270 oldal
...sermons never convince; The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul." Or even more strikingly — "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; (I am large — I contain multitudes.)" And then in his final exquisite lines of the poem "Walt Whitman," we have his magnificent suggestion... | |
| Emory Holloway - 1926 - 378 oldal
...simplified by a theory, no ideal to be emphasized by discreet silence. He himself would not have it so. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. We may find, indeed, that the contradiction is more fundamental than he realized, that it was often... | |
| John Webster - 1927 - 340 oldal
...inconsistencies, they might well have retorted in the words of one who shared something of their rebel spirit: Do I contradict myself ? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) And it is indeed the glory of their spacious stage that the living multitudes are there. A modern play... | |
| Ivor John Carnegie Brown - 1928 - 204 oldal
...work thoroughly is to find his mind in flux, yet never sluggish. Like Whitman, he could exclaim, " Do I contradict myself ? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes." There is, indeed, a large unity about his main position of which the appeal to a general sensibility... | |
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