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... paper, which, in fact, represent an “artificial poem”: deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation o... ...h”, as an intellectual breathing, were superb springs. The “No” and “Anti” from my paradoxist manifestos had a creative character, not all nihilistic... ...tos had a creative character, not all nihilistic (C. M. Popa). The passage from paradoxes to paradoxism was documetarily described by Titu Popescu i... ...începând din 1991, depun la arhivele Universit ăţilor Arizona din Tempe şi Texas din Austin, tot ce-I legat de mi şcare. Iat ă câteva evenimente in... ...ări cu diver şi cercet ători literari – vezi colec ţia de la University of Texas at Arlington). Minte cu neru şinare c ă mi-a dat mie nu ştiu ce man... ...istics paradoxes and tautologies, în “Libertas Mathematica”, University of Texas at Arlington, Vol. XIX, 143-154, 1999. [10 ] Smarandache, Florentin... ...t Petrarca (14 th century) with his love antinomies, or the ancient Greek poets and playwrighters (before Jesus Christ): Pindar, Homer, Sofocles, ... ...Poetry Society of America; Uniunea Scriitorilor din România; International Poets Academy (India); La Société “Les Amis de la Poésie” (Fran ţa); Asso... ...ie Francophone (Fran ţa); Societatea Român ă de Haiku; Academy of American Poets; Modern Languages Association (SUA); Centre d’Études et de Recherch...
...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author... ...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ...ing, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los ... ...he read to me at the same table, eatables cleared, read me from the Greek poets, Pindar’s ode on boxing, Simonides and his Perseus imprisoned in a c... .... The White House Library Here I attempt to find sanctuary, among the poets. Now I realize that Mary is going insane. Only imbalance could bri... ...d by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the Ameri... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....
...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private world...
... ...............................................................................................................................103 RETREATING FROM R... ...study our field—to throw suspicion off ourselves. ―We are afraid we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a... ...nnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great religious leaders seem to be climbing the same mountain from d... ...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...elves. These are the so-called ‗lost boys.‘ 49 ―In the famous Texas ... ... children. The subservient wives controlled their children and had the power of God directing them to heaven if they obeyed. ―When the Texas ... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets....
...E THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT ...
............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. .................................................................. 233 Moral from God based assumptions ................................................... ...f Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame for those of us who like Szechwan and Thai.‖... ...y congruent. George Bush‘s approach to capital punishment, as governor of Texas, was that he trusted what the courts had found through their complet... ... case. He did this in the 152 death cases that he affirmed as governor of Texas. But when the courts found that Terry Schiavo was brain-dead he was ... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage...
...city of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He...
...2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, F. Smarandache, and L. Popescu American Res... ...rch Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) ... ... I received at the redaction office of “Curentul” in Munich a letter sent from the Istanbul camp for political refugees. A small writing, nervous and... ...poetical productivities, against those regular and exhausted identities by poets who generate continuos versified floods, who untiringly and tediousl... ...o Calvino, Milan Kundera, Umberto Eco, Marques, Toni Morrison. As for the poets, we deal with them at a greater length afterward. one arouses a perma... ...obody ever takes the liberty of provoking simple fruitless agitation; the poets are concerned with well-concluded actions, with an aim, suggestions, ... ..., Enciclopedy, Romanian-American Academy of Sciences and Arts, Arlington, Texas, 1996; the paragraph Florentin Smarandache, pp368-69. Balaj, Veron... ...n, Mr. Florentin Smarandache..., in “Libertas Mathematica”, University of Texas, Arlington, 15th vol., 1995, p. 241. Tilton, Homer B., Petrified Kn... ...tantin , Professor Florentin..., in “Libertas Mathematica”, University of Texas, Arlington, 15th vol, 1996, p.194. 96 Rotaru, Ion, Paradoxism, ...
... consisting in the concomitance of the opposites, which gives it a real specificity. The paradox is of the nature of an explosive nucleus resulting from the fusion of satisfaction and anxiety. The first situation, during an instant, is derived from the appearance of something with a convincing meaning; the second one, that comes immediately, is the perception of someth...
...fe escorts tor visitors of the fair sex and also two illustri- ous orators from the lower classes. Ijet me introduce to you the sophomore orator, Mr. ... ...here to thank the various alumni who, unsolicit- ed, have contributed news from time to time. The same prinoiplo obtains in the collection of under- g... ... who have not yet had the ad- vantage of being able to consider tpiestions from an alumni stand point. For the stutleiit, it is a channel thrc.ugh whi... ...the Hoosac school. Lapham is oraploying his time temporarily on a ranch in Texas. Lawrence is in the Bermudas acting as a private tutor. On his return... ...agination, nourished doubtless by a loving familiarity of the best English poets. While in n degree imitative, the imitation is none the less creditab... ... by citing the instances of state re- valuation in Wisconsin, Michigan and Texas. He quoted various stntenients by authorities on the subject to show ... ...had ac complished in Galveston, Hous- ton. Dallas. Austin, and Port Worth, Texas, and in several other cities whose size is not much less than that of...
...000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives m...
...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ... BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leonardo da Vinci’s J... ...ing, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los ... ...d by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the Ameri... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....
...and poetry. Our most recent publication is the remarkable quintet, Voices from the Past, by bestselling author Paul Alexander Bartlett, whose novel,... ...hanges to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this ... ... BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leonardo da Vinci’s J... ...ing, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los ... ...d by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the Ameri... ... of interna- tional poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....
...lities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic... ...troduction. It was a surprise for me when in 1995 I received a manuscript from the mathematician, experimental writer and innovative painter Florent... ...paper, which, in fact, represent an "artificial poem": deformed, resulted from a translation by the observant of the observed, and by translation on... ... factors for more and better creation or work. (Applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, spiritualists.) My Syndrome: Is characterized ... ...ublic (by printing my diary), my private life not private anymore. "Poets' work can stay one near another, philosophers' not" (Schopenhauer). ... ...guistic Paradoxists and Tautologies", Libertas Mathematica, University of Texas at Arlington, Vol. XIX, 143-154, 1999. [40] Soare, Ion, "Un Scriitor... ...inguistic Paradoxists and Tautologies, Libertas Mathematica, University of Texas at Arlington, Vol. XIX, 143-154, 1999. [129] Smarandache, Florentin,... ...merican Mathematics, Center for American History, SRH 2.109, University of Texas at Austin, TX 78713, USA. [135] "The Florentin Smarandache Papers" S...
... 2004 Xiquan 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (Universi... ... E. Townley Ave., Phoenix AZ 85020, USA More books can be downloaded from the following Digital Library: http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandach... ...han my personal bias. In what aspect can Chinese culture be distinctive from western ones? The difference between Western and Eastern cultures, on... ...randache/NeutrosophicProceedings.pdf; Libertas Mathematica, University of Texas at Arlington, 2002; Los Alamos National Laboratory archives [New Mexi... ....gov/ftp/math/papers/0306/0306384.pdf; Libertas Mathematica, University of Texas at Arlington, 2002; Los Alamos National Laboratory archives (New Mex... ...tors for more and better creation or work. (This applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, and spiritualists.) (What we yearn for is real...
...on ceremonies or reading their mandates became irrelevant. Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, be... ...tely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's sleep was spastic lik... ...iguk." Sometimes at the primary school in Muguk he would ask, "Where are you from?" Then once, in a coaching effort for the pitch of a complete sente... ... in the Ozarks with high hills everywhere. He had lived in both Missouri and Texas depending on the needs of his father's work. They had homes in bot... ...had found a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and trad... ... for her indulgence in being allowed to study abroad in that quasi-nation of Texas. Merging the more affluent family to hers had been the price for R...
...f, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@... ... Internet, has been transformed beyond recognition since March 2000. From an open, somewhat anarchic, web of networked computers - it has evolve... ... properties. The likes of Disney and Bertelsmann have swung a full circle from considering the Internet to be the next big thing in New Media deliver... ...an even paperbacks. John Bell (competing with Dr. Johnson) published "The Poets of Great Britain" in 1777-83. Each of the 109 volumes cost six shill... ...his: professors who tell me their students will not read paper textbooks, Texas preparing for all textbooks to be e-Books. . . . Q. PG is a prime ex... ...ive Engine - Innovation and the Capitalist Dream Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someone compresses an image us...
... Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ‘the man who came from nowhere,’ as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothi... ... this Mr. Kipling, then but twenty- four years old, had arrived in England from India to find that fame had preceded him. He had already gained fame i... ...ed and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,” and various other stories and verses, had stamped him for ... ...ales of riata-throwing in Mexico and Arizona, of gambling at army posts in Texas, of newspaper wars waged in godless Chi- cago (I could not help being... ...hought beyond the enjoyment of a good time. As certain, also, of their own poets have said:— “Man is fire and woman is tow, And the devil he comes and...
...small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who came from nowhere,? as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world.?...
... that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constituti... ...serve should be valued by the human family. Those liberties had been wrung from reluctant monarchs in many contests, in many countries, and were group... ...eople and in vin- dication of truths that will stand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the pu... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ...d manufacture centres in the hands of the Anglo-Americans. But the case of Texas is still more striking: the State of T exas is a part of Mexico, and ... ...reseen that if Mexico takes no steps to check this change, the province of Texas will very shortly cease to belong to that government. If the differen... ... exas. The inhabitants of the United States are perpetually migrat- ing to Texas, where they purchase land; and although they conform to the laws of t... ...ss progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans, struck by th...
...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the liberties which...
... have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three communications, all similar in import and identical in... ... attention to this region, particularly on election day. Prevent violence from whatever quarter, and see that the soldiers themselves do no wrong. Y ... ...e country. This will heal a dangerous schism for him. It will relieve him from a dangerous position or a misunderstanding, as I think he is in danger... ..., declare, and make known that whenever, in any of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South ... ... of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas were, for reasons therein set forth, placed under blockade; and where... ...e port of Brownsville, in the district of Brazos Santiago, in the State of Texas, has since been blockaded, but as the blockade of said port may now b... ...incoln: V ol Seven must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were ap- plied to ...
...f water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might... ... into our hands, and we burned it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any ... ...ng to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as w... ...ern stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisiana purchased, and Missouri and Kansas rescued from ... ...rs, and al- most always to the detriment of the South. In 1845 Florida and Texas were admitted into the Union as slave States. I think that no State h... ..., I imagine, impossible—unless such object were gained by the admission of Texas. We all remember that fight about Kansas, and what sort of a fight it... ...n historians are acknowledged as great au- thors, and as regards their own poets, will sometimes de- mand your admiration for strains with which you h...
...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or en tertaining,... ...n oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and ... ...com plete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...es a man who regards them both with equal eye. Chapter 86 The Tail O ther poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lov... ...land, but a Fast Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession the whol...
...s not true.” —Hackluyt “Whale. ... Sw. and Dan. Hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. Hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —W ebst... ...ed or vaulted.” —W ebster’ s Dictionary “Whale. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. wallen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richard... ..., however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ...n oceans, as the three pirate powers did Poland. Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and ... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...kes a man who regards them both with equal eye. CHAPTER 86 The Tail O THER POETS HA VE WARBLED the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lo... ...and, but a Fast- Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession the whol...
... in the Republic than I had, when I landed in America. I purposely abstain from extending these observations to any length. I have nothing to defend, ... ...y, with a modest yet most magnificent sense of its limited dimensions, had from the first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in... ...and vivacity. Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse wi... ...alking in front of the house), he would clean up his musket, and be off to Texas to morrow morning. He was one of the very many descendants of Cain pr... ...are for poetry:’ though we DO, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets: while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholes...
...aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Blodgett College. The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, an... ...onsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Blodgett protects them from the wickedness of the universities. But it secretes friendly girls, yo... ...- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-bath. She seemed then but half as large as they had supposed;... ...air Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University... ...s—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished s... ...umber of very interesting papers, this is such an interesting subject, the poets, they have been an inspiration for higher thought, in fact wasn’t it ... ... and asked Bresnahan what he thought about the Packard car, investments in Texas oil-wells, the com- parative merits of young men born in Minnesota an... ...nest kind of critter that God ever made—meaner than the horned toad or the Texas lallapaluza! (Laughter.) And do you know what the animile was? He was... ... parties, and at the dinners of State Societies, to which the emigres from Texas or Michigan surged that they might confirm themselves in the faith th...
...American wheat. When complete, they will form the story of a crop of wheat from the time of its sowing as seed in California to the time of its consum... ..., slow-moving press of men and women in evening dress filled the vestibule from one wall to an- other. A confused murmur of talk and the shuffling of ... ...ed murmur of talk and the shuffling of many feet arose on all sides, while from time to time, when the outside and inside doors of the entrance chance... ...came for her an actual passion. She delved into Tennyson and the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essayists of Ne... ...how futile it is, how empty, a vanity of vanities. I had imagined that the poets were wrong, were idealists, see- ing the things that should be rather... ...nce—in my heart, in my very hand, like a mysterious, beautiful exotic. The poets are wrong,” he added. “They have not been idealists enough. I wish— a... ... the “Mysterious Island” and “Michael Strogoff,” or even to “Mr. Potter of Texas” and “Mr. Barnes of New York.” But she had set herself to accomplish ...
... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ...trong ones. In each case, to get the best results, you must free the metal from its obstructing prejudicial ones by education— smelting, refining, and... ...e odds and ends of thoughts, impressions, feelings, gathered unconsciously from a thou sand books, a thousand conversations, and from streams of thou... ...inct. O.M. She has cows, and milks them. Y.M. Instinct, of course. O.M. In Texas she lays out a farm twelve feet square, plants it, weeds it, cultivat... ...history as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolution... ...es, slaughter one another’s subjects; it has raised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and lit... ...nfin ished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind . Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has died th...
... isn’t any real harm to him. He’ s more to be pitied than anything,” a man from New York drawled, as he lay at full length along the cushions un- der ... ...h along the cushions un- der the wet skylight. “They’ve dragged him around from hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother th... ...’ s the matter with the old man attending to him personally?” said a voice from the frieze ulster. “Old man’ s piling up the rocks. ‘Don’t want to be ... ...en they had to ask that Beverly man how he was off for beans, because even poets must not have things all their own way. Every schooner and nearly eve... ...se story is yet to be written. It began with a kinless boy turned loose in Texas, and went on fantastically through a hundred changes and chops of lif...
...ne I Sing................22 Shut Not Your Doors...........................22 Poets to Come.....................................22 To You................. ..............23 BOOK II............................................24 Starting from Paumanok.....................24 BOOK III............................... ...OK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM ...103 To the Garden the World...................103 From Pent Up Aching Rivers............103 I Sing the Body Electric.......... ...t Pipes of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ................................................... ...e with distrustful aspect, Terrible in beauty, age, and power, The genius of poets of old lands, As to me directing like flame its eyes, With finger p... ...elt by the intellect, But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not t... ...trenchments. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 78 34 Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth, (I tell not the fall of Alamo, Not one escaped t... ...ways the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California’s golden hills and hollows, and the silver mount... ...s solitary just aside the horse path; Leaves of Grass –Whitman 180 Down in Texas the cotton field, the negro cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen b...
...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, f...
.......21 What Place Is Besieged?......................22 Still Though the One I Sing................22 Shut Not Your Doors...........................22 Poets to Come.....................................22 To You................................................23 Thou Reader........................................23 BOOK II............................................24 Startin...
...owing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...eard of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in ... ...ecomes impossible for them to resume 2 Walden their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stomach;... ... York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communic... ...airest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their... .... By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read ... ...nsonian. Wise midnight hags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual co... ...goose is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of California and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Conclusion 205 Mr. —— of G...
...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a soj...
...sles last and worst, and they don’t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers’ daughters, and has no home at all, and they m... ... her with them, for their sister has chil- dren, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish ... ...sense in the family. Joe and his mother did like to feel a plan quite free from Robert’s condemnation for enthusiasm or impracticability, and it was n... ...hn. “You haven’t ac- counted for the pronoun?” “Oh, never mind that. Great poets are above rules. I want Essie to promise us bridesmaids blackcock tai... ...derings we got out of the more established regions into the south-west. In Texas we found a new township, called Burkeville, with- out a resident medi...
...Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they don?t know what to do with her, for she came from the asylum for officers? daughters, and has no home at all, and they must go away to have the house purified. They can?t take her with them, for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room befo...
...ing pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neigh bor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of W... ...rd of other men’s lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sin cerely, it must have been in ... ...l it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can pass into the stom ach”... ...ork. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing impor tant to communic... ...rest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the chil dren of Aurora, and emit their... ... such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read th... ...nian. Wise midnight bags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual cons... ...e is a goose still, dress it as you will. They tell me of Califor nia and Texas, of England and the Indies, of the Hon. Mr.— of Georgia or of Massach...
... all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, w... ...n riddle. If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from indi- vidual experience. There is a relation between the hours of our ... ...hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded b... ... involuntarily we always read as superior be- ings. Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures, —in the sacerdot... ...ails of that stately apologue. Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus, said the poets. When the gods come among men, they are not known. Jesus was not; Soc... ...- mance, the issue is an exact allegory. Hence Plato said 22 Essays that “poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”... ...he northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geograp...
.... “Or not,” said Dupin. “Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last impor- tance,... ...rter, that a certain document of the last impor- tance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The indi- vidual who purloined it is known; this... ... this known?” asked Dupin. “It is clearly inferred,” replied the Prefect, “from the nature of the document, and from the non-appearance of certain re-... ...inister is a fool, because he has acquired renown as a poet. All fools are poets; this the Prefect feels; and he is merely guilty of a non distributio... ...e is merely guilty of a non distributio medii in thence inferring that all poets are fools.” 15 V olume Two “But is this really the poet?” I asked. “... ... to cut them down.”’* * “One of the most remarkable natural curiosities in Texas is a petrified forest, near the head of Pasigno river. It consists of...
... contribution. Their chronicle strikes me as quite of the stuff to keep us from forgetting that absolutely no refinement of ingenuity or of precaution ... ... upon himself; the rest of our impression, in either case, coming straight from the very motion with which that act is performed. We see Charlotte als... ... is, for the projector and creator of figures and scenes that are as nought from the moment they fail to become more or less visible appearances, charm... ...fields of light, as that between verse and prose. The circumstance that the poets then, and the more charming ones, have in a number of instances, with... ...undiminished existence. She had him, it was true, only in America, only in Texas, in Nebraska, in Arizona or somewhere—somewhere that, at old Fawns Ho...