...men known primarily as reormers when he wrote to a friend : ' Reform cannot take up the whole of e, and I am quite sure that eyes were given us to look about us with sometimes, and not always to be looking forward." Your complete reformer is frequently a man of one idea. Whittier was...

...repeat one-s self. I have preached sermons enow, and now I am going to come down out of the pnlpit and go about among my parish. I shall turn my barrel...other directions in which one may get away from people besides the rearward one. ... I am not certain that my next appearance will not be in a pamphlet on...

...present Life as I have seen it. In ' The Nooning ' I shall have not even a glance toward reform. . . . Certainly I shall not grind for any Philistines, whether...and not to be always looking forward. If some of my red-hot friends were to see this they would call me a backslider, but there are other directions in...

...preached sermons enow, and now I am going to come down out of the pulpit and go about among my parish. ... I find that Reform cannot take up the whole of me,...sometimes, and not to be always looking forward.... I am tired of controversy. Out of such a mood as this came the natural decision to make his first and...

...served love and freedom hitherto, and he now proposed to serve beauty, adding the significant comment, "I find that Reform cannot take up the whole of me,...quite sure that eyes were given us to look about us sometimes, and not to be always looking forward. ... I am tired of controversy" (ibid., Vol. I, p....

...speaks of Reform as though he had entirely measured it as an ideal of living and found it impossible: "I find that Reform cannot take up the whole of me,...other directions in which one may get away from people besides the rearward one." Lowell's enthusiasm for freedom and human brotherhood, but combined in organic...

...difference between himself and the class of men known primarily as reformers when he wrote to a friend : " Reform cannot take up the whole of me, and I am quite...given us to look about us with sometimes, and not always to be looking forward." Your complete reformer is frequently a man of one idea. Whittier was...

...his more purely literary powers. "I find that Reform cannot take up the whole of me," he confessed, "and I am quite sure that eyes were given us to look...about us with sometimes, and not to be always looking forward."42 Looking "about" him, Lowell found that the cause of American letters required his services...