 Leaves of Grass," a book of singular service, a book which tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation...  Book Auction Records - Síða 85 breytti - 1915Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Arthur Kölbing, Reinald Hoops, Albert Wagner - 1899 - 494 síður
...Testament and in particular the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass', a book which "tumbled the world upside down for me,...into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion; and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1888 - 572 síður
...know and all modestly refrain from applying. But upon this subject it is perhaps better to be silent 1 come next to Whitman's ' Leaves of Grass,' a book...tumbled the world upside down for me, blew into space at housnnd cobwebs of gnnteel and ethical illusion ; and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies,... | |
 | 1889 - 882 síður
...Montaigne's " Essais " and the New Testament, he continues in these startling but well-weighed words : " I come next to Whitman's ' Leaves of Grass,' a book...into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 700 síður
...know and all modestly refrain from applying. But upon this subject it is perhaps better to be silent. I come next to Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a book of...into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 700 síður
...know and all modestly refrain from applying. But upon this subject it is perhaps better to be silent. I come next to Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a book of singular service, a book which tumbled the world 304 upside down for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904 - 758 síður
...and obscenity." — BALDWIN, JAMES, 1882, English Literature and Literary Criticism, Poetry, p. 559. I come next to Whitman's "Leaves of 'Grass, " a book...thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation of all the original and manly virtues. But it is, once more, only a book for... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 248 síður
...upon his shoulders ' (ibid. p. 108). * Republished in his Later Essays, in the Edinburgh edition. I 1 come next to Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a book of...into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and having thus shaken my receives his meed of gratitude, and to him succeed Shakespeare,... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 282 síður
...Republished in his Later Essays, in the Edinburgh Edition. "I come next to Whitman's Leaves of Crass, a book of singular service, a book which tumbled the...into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation... | |
 | Henry Bellyse Baildon - 1901 - 298 síður
...Testament, and in particular the Gospel according to St. Matthew; and Walt Whitman's " Leaves of Grass," a book which " tumbled the world upside down for me,...into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion ; and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation... | |
 | robert louis stevenson - 1902 - 722 síður
...know and all modestly refrain from applying. But upon this subject it is perhaps better to be silent. I come next to Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a book of...into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my tabernacle of lies, set me back again upon a strong foundation... | |
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