 Language, be it remember'd, is not an abstract construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close...  Language of the Land: Policy, Politics, Identityedited by - 2007 - 210 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | John Addington Symonds - Aesthetics - 1890 - 434 pages
...construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American prose literature - 1891 - 550 pages
...construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
 | Robert Needham Cust - Authors, English - 1899 - 494 pages
...of the learned, or of " Dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, " ties, joys, affections, tastes of long generations of Humanity, and has " its bases broad and low close to the ground. The final decisions are " made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American literature - 1901 - 566 pages
...construction of the learn' d, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - English language - 1909 - 382 pages
...affairs of life. Language, as Walt Whitman says, " is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - English language - 1909 - 390 pages
...affairs of life. Language, as Walt Whitman says, " is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad• and lo-»7 close to the ground. Its final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
 | Walt Whitman - American literature - 1928 - 258 pages
...construction of the learn'd, or of dictionarymakers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
 | Mary Arensberg - Poetry - 1986 - 242 pages
...construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground" (PW, ll:573). Whitman, apparently, felt more comfortable with the presence... | |
 | Michael Kowalewski - Literary Collections - 1996 - 322 pages
...construction of the learn'd, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground." It is slang (by which Whitman means colloquial speech in general) that forms... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, John Algeo, R. W. Burchfield - Aneuploidy - 1992 - 676 pages
...echoing the Romantics, he said that language 392 "is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. Its final decisions are made by the masses, people nearest the concrete,... | |
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