 | 1891 - Страниц: 836
...ADDINGTON SYMONDS has recently said : " ' Leaves of Grass,' which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more, perhaps, than any other book has...except the Bible ; more than Plato, more than Goethe." Such emphatic frankness, so exalted an estimate, by such a man, commands attention. While the world... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1896 - Страниц: 292
...declares that "Leaves of Grass," which he first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced him more than any other book has done, except the Bible, — more than Plato, more than Goethe. When we remember that the man who made this statement was eminently a man of books, deeply read in... | |
 | Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe - 1898 - Страниц: 500
...surely a critical voice worth heeding : " Leaves of Grass, which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more, perhaps, than any other book has...except the Bible ; more than Plato, more than Goethe." If this was a personal rather than a critical estimate, a value of its own may be attached to his statement... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - Страниц: 336
...declares that " Leaves • of Grass," which he first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced him more than any other book has done, except the Bible, — more than Plato, more than Goethe. When we remember that the man who made this statement was eminently a man of books, deeply read in... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - Страниц: 336
...declares that "Leaves of Grass," which he first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced him more than any other book has done, except the Bible, — more than Plato, more than Goethe. When we remember that the man who made this statement was eminently a man of books, deeply read in... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1906 - Страниц: 368
...iii, chap. 12. 2 Symonds testified : " Leaves of Grass, which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more perhaps than any other book has...except the Bible ; more than Plato, more than Goethe." Stevenson spoke of it as " a book which tumbled the world upside down for me." been inclined to consider... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1906 - Страниц: 362
...iii, chap. 12. 2 Symonds testified : " Leaves of Grass, which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more perhaps than any other book has...except the Bible ; more than Plato, more than Goethe." Stevenson spoke of it as " a book which tumbled the world upside down for me." AFTER FIFTY YEARS 291... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1909 - Страниц: 198
...delivered my soul of these debilities. . . . Leaves of Grass, which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more perhaps than any other book has...except the Bible ; more than Plato, more than Goethe. ... I do not think it is a religion only for the rich, the powerful, the wise, the healthy. For my... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1912 - Страниц: 380
...culture in contact with Whitman : " ' Leaves of Grass,' which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more perhaps than any other book has...except the Bible ; more than Plato, more than Goethe. . . . My academical prejudices, the literary instincts trained by two decades of Greek and Latin studies,... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - 1913 - Страниц: 782
...Whitman. Years afterward he wrote : " Leaves of Grass, which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more perhaps than any other book has...deeply entered into the fibre and marrow of my being." In Whitman all these smouldering theories, these gently, passively emotional thoughts sprang up as... | |
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Leaves of Grass, which I first read at the age of twenty-five, influenced me more perhaps than any other book has done, except the Bible; more than Plato, more than Goethe. 
