 I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved...  The North American Review - Seite 4121916Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Riley Halstead - 1913 - 348 Seiten
...and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life; to cut a broad swath and to shave close; to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest...genuine meanness of it and publish its meanness to the world; or, if it were sublime, to know by experience and to give a true statement of it in my next... | |
 | Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical Society - 1914 - 780 Seiten
...be repugnant to hi.s character. His purpose was •' to front only the essential facts of life. To reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to...genuine meanness of it and publish its meanness to the world, or if it were sublime to know it oy experience." Kmrrbon had bought land in Walden woods, on... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1916 - 162 Seiten
...wolfishly to " live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to -cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world," leaves no one doubting that the monster which pursued him was Reality hypostatized into life... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1916 - 162 Seiten
...wolfishly to " live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...why, then to get the whole and genuine meanness of POSITION it, and publish its meanness to the world," leaves no one doubting that the monster which... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1919 - 528 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1923 - 570 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life ; to cut a broad swath and shave close ; to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | Eleanore (Sister Mary) - 1923 - 284 Seiten
...die, discover that I had not lived. ... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, ... to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 Seiten
...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its...genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in... | |
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