 | Cheltenham College - 1868 - 412 pages
...Do you think the great city endures P The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman ; if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.' One more extract and I will have done. It is called ' Envy' — 'When I peruse the conquered fame of... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1868 - 464 pages
...very well till one flash of defiance. The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman ; If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. 5The place where the great city stands is not the place of stretched wharves, docks, manufactures,... | |
 | American poems, William Michael Rossetti - 1873 - 556 pages
...very well till one flash of defiance. The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman ; If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. 5The place where the great city stands is not the place of stretched wharves, docks, manufactures,... | |
 | Jean Middlemass - 1875 - 290 pages
...I. HAZE IN THE HORIZON. "'A GEE AT city is that which has the greatest man or woman. "'If it be but a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the world.' " I wonder if it would be so very difficult to be great! What do you think, Margaret?'' and... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...very well till one flash of defiance. The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman ; If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. 5The place where the great city stands is not the place of stretched wharves, docks, manufactures,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...them, The show passes, all does well enough of course, All does very well till one flash of defiance. A great city is that which has the greatest men and...place where a great city stands is not the place of stretch'd wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce merely, Nor the place of ceaseless salutes... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 70 pages
...Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents, Of city for city and land for land. A great city is that which has the greatest men and...it is still the greatest city in the whole world. Ah from a little child, Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music, My mother's voice in lullaby... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 pages
...Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents, Of city for city and land for land. A great city is that which has the greatest men and...it is still the greatest city in the whole world. Song of the Broad-axe. Ah from a little child, Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music,... | |
 | 1906 - 554 pages
...on the road — they are the swift and majestic men — they are the greatest women. ' f Or again, ' A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. What does Whitman definitely mean by this word 'greatest?' What makes a great personality, the capacity... | |
 | 1898 - 534 pages
...where the citizen is always the head and ideal ; where women are made equal to men." " The greatest city is that which has the greatest men and women....a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city," for character alone endures. After brief addresses by John P. Watson of Wellfleet and Rev. Dr. Hazen,... | |
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, . • If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world. 
