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WALT WHITMAN
that any being should get evil from so healthy a
book as the Leaves of Grass, wliich is simply comical
wherever it falls short of nobility ; but if there be
any such, who cannot both take and leave, who can-
not let a single opportunity pass by without some
unworthy and unmanly thought, I should have as
great difficulty, and neither more nor less, in recom-
mending the works of Whitman as in lending them
Shakespeare, or letting them go abroad outside of
the grounds of a private asylum.
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that any being should get evil from so healthy a
book as the Leaves of Grass, wliich is simply comical
wherever it falls short of nobility ; but if there be
any such, who cannot both take and leave, who can-
not let a single opportunity pass by without some
unworthy and unmanly thought, I should have as
great difficulty, and neither more nor less, in recom-
mending the works of Whitman as in lending them
Shakespeare, or letting them go abroad outside of
the grounds of a private asylum.
127
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Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Collected works > Works of Robert Louis Stevenson > Miscellanies, Volume II > (143) Page 127 |
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1895 [Date published] |
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Subject / content: |
Literature (humanities) Essays Criticism Anthologies |
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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 [Subject of text] Villon, François, b. 1431 [Subject of text] Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572 [Subject of text] Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 [Subject of text] Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 [Subject of text] Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 [Subject of text] Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 [Subject of text] Yoshida, Shōin, 1830-1859 [Subject of text] Charles, d’Orléans, 1394-1465 [Subject of text] |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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1894-1898 [Date printed] |
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Edinburgh
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Collected works |
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Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Distributor] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] T. and A. Constable [Printer] Longmans, Green, and Co. [Publisher] Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 [Editor] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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