 I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with...  Current Opinion - Page 4461906Full view - About this book
 | 1875 - 80 pages
...sweat and whine about their condition ; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins ; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth ;" and the Bowery Transcendentalist sang her creed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1876 - 1022 pages
...awake in the dark and weep for their sin3 ; They do not make mo sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the...thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth." Wise men have long been, and are likely to be, content to learn... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...awake in the dark and weep for their sins ; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God ; Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the...thousands of years ago ; Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. Wise men have long been, and are likely to be, content to learn from... | |
 | Walter Lewin - 1879 - 252 pages
...for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied—not one is demented with the mania of owning things ;...thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth." Note the peculiar echo of the saying of One Other : " Consider the... | |
 | Education - 1928 - 692 pages
...awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Xot one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the...one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." Democracy was a passion with him: "By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - English fiction - 1883 - 312 pages
...with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd : . I stand and look at them long and long. Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented with the mania of owning things : Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth." The Whitman method of reaching naivete is here... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the...one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them... | |
 | Criticism - 1884 - 928 pages
...they are about the only animals in the world to whom these words will apply; 'For,' says Whitman, 'not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.' But suppose he »ere taking one of his favorite night strolls in the woods of Bengal rather than of... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 pages
...awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the...one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they shew their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them... | |
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