...succeeded at last)." Of the first edition of" Leaves of Grass " Emerson said in a letter to Whitman, " I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start." In the bare recital of the external facts of Whitman's early life, this foreground remains still unexplained....

...reads the book of Amos one is reminded of Emerson's words to Walt Whitman. "I greet you," he said, "at the beginning of a great career, which yet must...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start." The type of thought which Amos represents cannot, as the Germans say, have been "shot out of a pistol."...

...find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere for such a start. ... It has the best merits, namely of fortifying and encouraging." Other editions of "Leaves of Grass."...

...: "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed ... I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere." This concluding surmise was merely common sense, and, as the world now knows, perfectly true. What...

...inspire. I, greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see...best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging. I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks, and visiting New York to pay...

...find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. I, greet you at the beginning of a great career, which yet must have had a long foreground, for such a start. I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid...

...to discover special miracles in the manifestations of genius; and so he added, anent that promising career: "which yet must have had a long foreground somewhere for such a start." And, despite many a biographer's indifferent allusion to the banality of his early writings, a perusal...

...transcendent phrase in his letter to Walt Whitman, after reading the first edition of Leaves of Grass: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start." Lincoln was like Nature, revealing himself so freely, so generously, so fully and with such universal...

...America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. . . . I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which...It has the best merits, namely, of fortifying and encouraging.1 It is well never to overlook these few but astonishing words of commendation from the...

...incomparable things said incomparably well. ... I greet you at the beginning of a great career. ... I rubbed my eyes a little, to see if this sunbeam were no illusion. ... I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to...