 | 1928 - 692 pages
...years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." Democracy was a passion with him: "By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms !" He loved Nature and interpreted her moods with loving understanding : "I believe a leaf of grass... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...returns at last to me. Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of...cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Through me many long dumb voices, Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves, Voices... | |
 | Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1887 - 442 pages
...But we have our faces turned towards a new day, and toward heights on which there is room for all. " By God, I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms " is the motto of the great personages, the great souls of to-day. On the same terms, for that is Nature's... | |
 | 1906 - 554 pages
...says ) — as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself. ' Or again : ' I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of...cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. ' But what are these same terms? Does Whitman believe that all can comply here and now with the terms?... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 334 pages
...expressed at large throughout his writings. We might throw light upon it from the following passage : * I speak the pass-word primeval — I give the sign...cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Thus Democracy implies the absolute equality of heritage possessed by every man and woman in the good... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1890 - 268 pages
...And in his vigorous masculine love, asserting his own personality he has asserted that of all— " By God ! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms." Charging himself in every place with contentment and triumph, he embraces all men, as St. Francis in... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1891 - 92 pages
...arrogance and cruelty of power. He has sworn never to be tyrant or slave. He has solemnly declared : / I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God II will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. This one declaration... | |
 | William Clarke - 1892 - 162 pages
...principle on which Whitman bases democracy : " I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of I democracy, By God ! I will accept nothing which all...cannot have [ their counterpart of on the same terms." When this idea permeates the nature it generates a feeling of brotherhood very different from that... | |
 | James Thomson - 1892 - 302 pages
...sentimentalist — no stander above men and women, or apart from them ; No more modest than immodest. " I speak the password primeval — I give the sign of democracy; By God ! I will accept nothing that all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. "Through me many long dumb voices; Voices... | |
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I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. 
