 For half a century I have survived in a world entirely unfitted for me, and having known both the Heaven and the Hell thereof, and being without a revenue and an army and navy to compel the nations, I begin definitely in my Testaments and Tragedies to...  The Triumph of Mammon - Page 152by John Davidson - 1907 - 166 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1907 - 720 pages
...without a revenue and an army and navy to compel the natives, I begin definiiely, in my Testaments, to destroy this unfit world and make it over again in my ow n image, because that cannot be transcended. Later, having chastised the world for its commercial,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Literature - 1910 - 344 pages
...conjecture of his suicide. " For half a century," he once wrote, in a mood of supreme discontent, " I have survived in a world entirely unfitted for me...unfit world and make it over again in my own image," — truly a rather colossal enterprise. It was in the preface to the sheaf of poems which he went out... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1910 - 812 pages
...epilogue to the drama The Triumph of Mammon, he says: " For half a century I have survived in a world unfitted for me, and having known both the Heaven...unfit world and make it over again in my own image." His parable, introducing The Testament of an Empire Builder, tells us he is preaching a new gospel... | |
 | John McFarland Kennedy - English literature - 1912 - 366 pages
...without a revenue or an army and navy to compel the nations, I begin definitely in my Testaments and my Tragedies to destroy this unfit world and make it over again in my own image. With this bitter preliminary Davidson proceeds to discuss poetry and the lives of poets, and in the... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 410 pages
...the future," he said, "are the very body and soul of poetry." Of his later intentions he declared, " I begin definitely in my Testaments and Tragedies...unfit world and make it over again in my own image." He was never weary of asserting the novelty of his aim and method, and although he admitted that there... | |
 | John Davidson - 1924 - 184 pages
...having known both the Heaven and the Hell thereof, and being without revenue ... I begin definitely ... to destroy this unfit world and make it over again in my own image, because that cannot be transcended. ... It is a new poetry I begin, a new cosmogony, a new habitation... | |
 | Sir Harold Herbert Williams - American fiction - 1925 - 554 pages
...flung defiance in the face of the powers who created the universe, announcing, " I begin definitely ... to destroy this unfit world and make it over again in my own image." But even in the twentieth century Prometheus lay bound, the powers of the universe were too strong... | |
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