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...Whitman’s lifetime, LEAVES OF GRASS has gone on to become one of the most canonical books of poetry ever written, influencing and inspiring countless artists in the last two centuries. Written in a groundbreaking prosodic style Whitman referred to as “free verse” LEAVES OF GRASS takes the individual and a young American democracy as its themes and illustrates them with a l...

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......................................................................... 44 POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................. ... foreign financing. I think that some countries are so busy chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists an... ... the long term trends and possible outcomes, you focused on the immediate political interests. Look what it has done to your economy and your intern... ...wing the joys of parenting. Clearly they wanted to use the most effective political techniques to change the minds of the reticent reproducers. ... ...people. Socially we have concerned people who 29 have been loved, and politically we have intelligent citizens. So it‟s a win-win-win situation. ... ...ach? “Our major films show the lives of composers, philosophers, artists and others who show courage and intellect. There is violence in so...

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...all of which and much else he bemoaned in so witty a man- ner that the two artists took a mighty fancy to cousin Gazonal, and made him relate his laws... ...- ing before you, one after the other, of men of talent, little and great, artists in seed or flower, who are raising to the glory of France that ever... ...ich keeps an eye on the other police, the head of it being always unknown; political police,—that’s Fouche’s. Then there’s the police of Foreign Affai... ...portance has turned his head. In these days, my dear fellow, under our new political dispensation, every hu- man being tries to cover himself with glo... ... him that she believes in the genius and glory of her husband. Vital loves artists, not that he has any taste for art, but from fellowship; for he fee... ... dreaming of reform,” said Leon. “Yes, monsieur. Ah! if a dozen or fifteen artists, capitalists, or dandies who set the tone would only have courage f... ...cingen are coming to Carabine’s to-night, where they will meet a number of political characters. You’ve lost a fine opportunity. Good-bye to you, old ... ...rers and sorceresses can see nothing; just as an artist who blurs art with political combi- nations and systems loses his genius. Not long ago, a man ... ...gins to confound me,” said Gazonal. “To make you see its immensity,—moral, political, and literary,—we are now proceeding like the Roman cicerone, who...

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...ing occupies him. Jester and jolly fellow, he keeps on good terms with all political opinions, and is patriotic to the bottom of his soul. A capital m... ...ent piston of the steam-engine called Speculation. “Monsieur,” said a wise political economist, the director- cashier-manager and secretary-general of... ...nd, but only five francs if he got no more than five hundred. The cause of political journalism not interfering with the pre- accepted cause of life i... ... Press is neither a tool nor an article of barter: it is, viewed under its political aspects, an institution. We are bound, in virtue of our position ... ...re bound, in virtue of our position as legislators, to consider all things politically, and therefore” (here he stopped to get breath)—”and there- for... ...ts, well got up, good paper, engravings from charming sketches by our best artists, actual colored draw- ings of the Indies—will not fade.’ I fired my... ... property because, forsooth, he is pleased to call us great men, painters, artists, poets,—mixing us up gra- tuitously with a set of fools who have ne...

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...circumstances. CHAPTER II THE STUDIO SERVIN, one of our most distinguished artists, was the first to conceive of the idea of opening a studio for youn... ...osition of his classes. He even refused to take girls who wished to become artists; for to them he would have been obliged to give certain in- structi... ...nes of glass furnished with those green linen shades by means of which all artists arrange the light. A quantity of caricatures, heads drawn at a stro... ...rated most effectually in the return from Elba. Incapable of deny- ing his political faith, anxious even to confess it, the old baron remained in Pari... ...t only to insult her, but to cause her a species of artistic pain; for all artists have a spot of predilection where they work. Nevertheless, politica... ...for all artists have a spot of predilection where they work. Nevertheless, political prejudice was not the chief influ- ence on the conduct of the Rig... ...hese royalists, nearly all of whom were indoctri- nated at home with their political ideas, they decided, with the tactics peculiar to women, that the... ...deeper breath might reveal to them, as it had to her, the presence of this political victim. She resolved to keep her place beside that door, trusting... ...m that if, on class-days when they could not see each other, any important political event occurred, Ginevra was to inform him by singing certain Cors...

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...hangings, the work of one of those upholsterers who have just missed being artists. A silver lamp studded with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of... ...w the strange upheavals which the year 1830 was destined to produce in the political condition, the fortunes, and the customs of France? Had any one p... ... the school of life—men who have gone round the circle of disillusionment, political and amorous—are capable of following out a course like this. Feli... ...ring to defend itself against an apathetic indifference (the result of the political drama) by producing works more or less Byronian, in which the onl... ...s abound. It is true that during those years so fruitful of turmoil—urban, political, and moral—a few matrimonial catastrophes took place; but these w... ... Comtesse de Montcornet, a charming little woman, who received illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only af... ... have struck his brow with the famous action of Andre Chenier. Seized with political ambition on seeing the rise to power of a dozen authors, professo... ... consummate corruption, Florine added a lively wit, which intercourse with artists had developed and practice sharpened day by day. Wit is thought to ... ...ts, and apparently will rest forever, on a criticism made against dramatic artists,—namely, that their personal sentiments are destroyed by the plasti...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...it was not intended to include other colored races -creates a new phase of political conditions that M. De Tocqueville could not foresee. Yet, in his ... ...ounty governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide de... ...iences made less progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans... ...ndred habits. Amongst this people they found distinguished men of science, artists of skill, writers of eminence, and they were enabled to enjoy the t... ...t in the useful arts then takes place in the fine arts; the productions of artists are more numerous, but the merit of each produc- tion is diminished...

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...less broad and catholic and of the general world. Nei- ther do we want our political economy from tradesmen nor our statesmanship from mere politician... ... which makes the greater among us states- men, reformers, philanthropists, artists, critics, men of let- ters. It is certainly human to mind your neig... ...o http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm T o return to the Great Political Documents Page, go to http://www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/ docum...

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...ts, women purely spiritual or purely material; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand m... ...s; few officials have not conceived the like; but among officials as among artists there are more mis- carriages than births; which is tantamount to B... ...ublic affairs and are not over- whelmed by it. Was France less prolific of political capacities than Germany? The rather silly game of what are called... ...from the soil, which was in danger; but in times of peace it was a serious political fault to burden it beyond a certain limit; otherwise it could nev... ...ing his ideas. Rabourdin’s success depended on the tranquil condi- tion of political affairs, which up to this time were still un- settled. He had not... ...d those of the rue Duphot. Neverthe- less, she mistook the quietude of the political thinker and the preoccupation of the intrepid worker for the apat... ...n Monsieur Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx, one of those men whom the tide of political events sends to the surface for a few years, then en- gulfs on a ... ...y, he was much liked in the world of actors and actresses, journalists and artists. For one thing, they had the same vices and the same indo- lence as... ...ed, and where Madame Rabourdin, dressed with that natural simplicity which artists alone attain, gave the impression of a woman accustomed to such ele...

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...nd until this war did away with distances we were free to try any social and political experiments we pleased, without, at any rate, weakening ourselv... ...ave nearly two thousand years of history and art and industry and social and political life to “conserve”; that is another of the reasons why their in... ...yet for us to “conserve” except a few root principles of conduct, social and political; and see how they spring up and dominate every other interest i... ...k of the significance of such an act at such a moment! France was a welter of political and religious dissension; everything in the monarchy, and the m... ...a platitude, though it may be a truism, to say that the French are a race of artists: it is the key that unlocks every door of their complex psycholog... ... of the wholly non creative races. But the men of English blood are creative artists too; theirs is the incomparable gift of poetic expression. And an... ...ly to gain greater liberty for the independent development of their peculiar political and religious ideas; they were not driven out with fire and swor... ... course, to the inevitable conclusion that the French are a race of creative artists, and that artistic creativeness requires first a free play of the ...

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...hts burn down to the sconces. The mistress of the house then waylays a few artists, amus- ing people or intimate friends, saying, “Do not go yet; we w... ...- velop—” “Yes,” said de Marsay; “I will tell you about it.” Pretty women, political dandies, artists, old men, de Marsay’s intimate friends,—all sett... ...id de Marsay; “I will tell you about it.” Pretty women, political dandies, artists, old men, de Marsay’s intimate friends,—all settled themselves comf... ...eness of her movements. The enchant- ing deceiver plays off all the little political artifices of her sex so naturally as to exclude all idea of art o... ...d so forth. Then she plunges into some neo-Christian speech sprinkled with political notions which is neither Catholic nor Protestant—but moral? Oh! d... ...o you that the ‘perfect lady’ represents the intellectual no less than the political muddle, just as she is surrounded by the showy and not very lasti...

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...and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul-... ...ion had been carried on in a mood in which all imaginative people, whether artists or poets, love to indulge. In this frame of mind, they sometimes fi... ... those living models, dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial pu... ...e, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup- plied it with romantic ornaments and excrescenc... ...sible theory, he might be a thief of the city, a robber of the Campagna, a political 26 The Marble Fawn offender, or an assassin, with blood upon his... ...the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of every degree,—all of whom fi... ...apitol. It was an admirable idea of those stern old fellows to fling their political criminals down from the very summit on which stood the Senate Hou...

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...aid beyond their own limits. For nine years, ever since the triumph of his political ideas, the colonel had lived almost entirely outside of social li... ...uture son-in-law, and my lady dreams now of the splendors and dignities of political life.” “Could you love Cecile?” said the colonel to his son. “Yes... ... 10 The Deputy of Arcis REVOLT OF A LIBERAL ROTTEN-BOROUGH THOUGH 1839 IS, politically speaking, very distant from 1847, we can still remember the ele... ... emony now about to take place. Ha! ha! young man; so we intend to enter a political career? Ha! ha! ha! This is our first step—mustn’t step back—it i... ...great work, “the devotion of those who fling themselves into the tumult of political life; he! he! he! It takes more nerve than I possess. Who could h... ...on of Madame de Montcornet than elsewhere. She receives, as you know, many artists and men 108 The Deputy of Arcis of letters, and to give you an ide... ...“He? he will talk to you by the hour of returning to the life of the great artists of the middle ages with the universality of their studies and their... ...e claw of a cat preparing to play with its mouse, so I answered, coldly:— “Artists, I am told, are often indiscreet in their curiosity.” I put a well-... ... the Cafe Greco, the usual rendezvous of the pupils of the Academy and the artists of all countries who flock to Rome. In Paris, rue de Coq-Saint-Hono...

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...e too much alarmed. Perhaps without knowing it, this reveals some profound political idea. It will surely not be a work of supererogation to describe ... ..., “but for you I should long since have ceased to live. But, my dear lady, artists require relax- ation—” “Ah! there we come to the point!” cried she,... ...hysiologists ought to try to detect the causes, since physiologists are to political life what entomologists are to agriculture. “But if I die before ... ...d as too eccentric. Their busi- ness was to copy the works of the greatest artists, but they did not teach the craft. The old maid’s persistent obstin... ...would have a tidy sum by now if he had stayed with us. What is to be done? Artists have a horror of not being free.” “They have a proper sense of thei... ...autions, your artist will take to loafing, and if you only knew what these artists mean by loafing! Shocking! Why, I have just heard that they will sp... ...man once more, had begun by consoling some old friends now fallen from the political firmament, like ex- tinguished stars, and then, as he grew old, w... ...th, there will be great names, but no great houses, unless there should be political changes which we can hardly foresee. Everything takes the stamp o... ...ty.” “They are afraid of my attachment to the dynasty,” replied Rivet. “My political enemies are the King’s. He has a noble character! They are a fine...

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...and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul-... ...ion had been carried on in a mood in which all imaginative people, whether artists or poets, love to indulge. In this frame of mind, they sometimes fi... ... those living models, dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial pu... ...e, it came back among the Anglo-Saxons, and was communicated to the German artists, who so richly sup- plied it with romantic ornaments and excrescenc... ...sible theory, he might be a thief of the city, a robber of the Campagna, a political 26 The Marble Fawn offender, or an assassin, with blood upon his... ...apitol. It was an admirable idea of those stern old fellows to fling their political criminals down from the very summit on which stood the Senate Hou... ...not uttered in a New England village throughout the year—except it be at a political canvass or town-meeting—as are spoken here, with no especial pur-... ...imposing aspect, and doubtless keep their eyes open wide enough to track a political offender, but are too often blind to private outrage, be it murde... ...on to believe that Miriam was suspected of con- nection with some plot, or political intrigue, of which there may have been tokens in the packet. And ...

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... XVIII., and found more than one opportunity of giving him proofs of great political honesty and sincere attachment. One evening, when the King had no... ... as much as in a well-written note, by his bril- liant manner of repeating political anecdotes, and the political or parliamentary tittle-tattle —if t... ...an income in salaries almost equal to that of a chief of department, their political good fortune excited no envy. In those early days of the constitu... ...untry folks all get their corners rubbed down; the Comte de Fontaine’s new political conscience was also a result of the King’s advice and friendship.... ...s of con- stitutional government, and lent all his weight to encourage the political see-saw which enabled his master to rule France in the midst of s... ...nay, the hillsides of Antony, and the valley of the Bieve are peopled with artists who have traveled far, by foreigners who are very hard to please, a...

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... step further, I too am an exile. Office and leading are closed to me. The political career that promised so much for me is shattered and ended for ev... ...HER THER THER THER THER 1 1 1 1 1 I DREAMT FIRST of states and cities and political things when I was a little boy in knickerbockers. When I think of... ... and brush up, and she never seemed to understand anything whatever of the political Systems across which she came to me. Also she forbade all toys on... ... in conversation with me and anxious to inti- 44 The New Machiavelli mate political sympathy and support. I tried to make him talk of the Home Church... ...ence Tripos (as it was then), and three years later I got a lectureship in political science. In those days it was disguised in the cloak of Political... ...e it. “The mod- ern community needs its serious men to be artistic and its artists to be taken seriously,” I remember his saying. “The day has gone by...

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...ross of the Legion of honor. I should not be on the highroad to becoming a political personage. Yes, you may shake your head, but if our affair succee... ...e bald-heads; hey! hey! Mimi? The demand for that article grows out of the political situation. A composition which will keep the hair in good health ... ...mer- cial interests showed him the death of trade in the Maxi- mum, and in political convulsions, which are always destruc- tive of business. Moreover... ... on the steps of Saint-Roch gave him the reputation of being mixed up with political secrets, and also of being a courageous man,—though he had no mil... ...an,—though he had no mili- tary courage in his heart, and not the smallest political idea in his brain. Upon these grounds the worthy people of the ar... ... at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of their eccentric... ... it is also the wealth of merchants. Time, time is gold, especially to you artists. I permit myself to say to you that architecture 64 Rise and Fall ... ...e bourgeois class, the con- stant butt of the witty shafts and ridicule of artists, and the object of their everlasting contempt, nodding his head as ... ...stre tints harmoniously blended, offered a striking likeness to that which artists bestow on Time, though it vulgarized it; for the habits of commerci...

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...because the amateurs had so much insisted on his merit as the su- preme of artists for grandeur of design and breadth of style; and because, apart fro... ...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... ... that, in trav- elling from Genoa and Florence to Rome, she sat to various artists, in order to meet the interest about herself already rising amongst... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ...broad evidences of the credulity with which we have adopted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fiel... ...egarded their forms and the correspondences of their parts; and usually by artists her face was said to be Grecian. Perhaps the nostrils, mouth, and f... ...gy. And in what way could such a polemic interest be evoked except through political partisanship? But such partisanship connects itself naturally wit... ...n sect a peculiar denomination are also those which record its hon- orable political conflicts; so that his own connection, through his religious brot... ...ood in the miniature pleasure-ground, and were con- stantly resorted to by artists for specimens of architectural decays, or of nature working for the...

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...variously during the troubles of the seven- teenth century. In many places political reasons had dictated 14 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V ... ...he other hand, largely to fertilize the many occasions of agitation, which political fermentations are too sure to throw off. Let this chance turn out... ...s adul- terating with her principle, to an issue not merely dangerous in a political sense, but ruinous in an anti-social sense. The artifice of the F... ...onal temper in every stage of their growth; whilst the third abstracts the political or the ethical moral, and unfolds the philosophy which knits the ... ... simply on the ground of its limited extent; contending that in public and political transactions, such as compose the matter of history, human nature... ...olyandrium on the field of battle, would be mea- sured and observed by the artists against the public applica- 133 Thomas de Quincey tion for their s... ...rise; viz. that the leg- endary Hercules was never delineated by the Greek artists as more than an athletic man of the ordinary standard with respect ... ...t the low (but we regret to add—and in all but the very highest) of London artists. Many things, which the wretched Von Raumer said of English art, we... ... evidently assumed, in the adoption of Pope for his subject, that mechanic artists, as a body, are capable of appreciating Pope. I deny it; and in thi...