 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 390 pages
...best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 pages
...best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1901 - 566 pages
...best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in, (for all this hectic glow, and these melo-dramatic screamings,) nor is humanity itself... | |
 | W. H. Trimble - 1905 - 116 pages
...the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness of heart than at present, and here in the United States...underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in nor is humanity itself believ'd in. What penetrating eye does not everywhere see through... | |
 | Thomas Kile Smith - 1914 - 84 pages
...by science, must be restored, brought back by the same power that caused her departure" ... (p. 76.) "Genuine belief seems to have left us. The underlying principles of the States are not honestly believ'd in ... nor is humanity itself believ'd in. What penetrating eye does not everywhere see through... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1916 - 388 pages
...face, like a physician diagnosing-^ome deep disease. Never ': was there, perhaps, morelfhonoSnessIat heart than at present, . and here in the United States. Genuine belief seems ta.Jja.ye left us. The underlying principles of the States are hot_hojiss.tiy believed in (for all... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1921 - 232 pages
...far from it. In one of his prose books (too little read) he says of his country: — Never was there more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. ... A scornful superciliousness rules in literature. The aim of all the litterateurs is to find something... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 pages
...fully possess'd . . . society, in these States, is canker'd, crude, superstitious, and rotten . . . never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States . . . The depravity of the business classes of our country is not less than has been supposed, but... | |
 | Luther S. Luedtke - 1992 - 588 pages
...lands searching in the face," Whitman wrote in 1871, "like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States." He recognized a contradiction, too, between the "mass, or lump character," and "the singleness of man,... | |
 | Geoffrey M. Sill - 1994 - 340 pages
...best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart...States. Genuine belief seems to have left us. ... The spectacle is appalling. We live in an atmosphere of hypocrisy throughout. The men believe not in the... | |
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I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the United States. 
