Chapter V

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

higher than, or over, something

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

touching and pressing; in opposition to

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

the two together, not just one

From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

two people or things considered together

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

all the members of a group, with none left out

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

used when the speaker is also the object of the action

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

not one and not the other of two

From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

and not; used after a negative to add a second negative

From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

not one thing; not anything

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

hard to find or in short supply

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

from a time in the past until now

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

of the kind already mentioned

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading It had so to serve for my particular nearest approach to a "contact" with the active drama--I mean of course the collectively and scenically active, since the brush of interest against the soldier single and salient was an affair of every day--that were it not for just one other strange spasm of awareness, scarce relaxed to this hour, I should have been left all but pitifully void of any scrap of a substitute for the concrete experience.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading Owing to which it is that I don't at all know what troops were in question, a "mere" couple of Rhode Island regiments (nothing in those days could be too big to escape the application of the "mere,") or a congeries of the temporarily incapacitated, the more or less broken, picked from the veterans--so far as there already were such--of the East at large and directed upon the Grove as upon a place of stowage and sanitation.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

which person or people

From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.

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From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

in the company of; together with

From this reading Discriminations of the prosaic order had little to do with my first and all but sole vision of the American soldier in his multitude, and above all--for that was markedly the colour of the whole thing--in his depression, his wasted melancholy almost; an effect that somehow corresponds for memory, I bethink myself, with the tender elegiac tone in which Walt Whitman was later on so admirably to commemorate him.

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From this reading The restrictions I confess to are abject, but both my sense and my aftersense of the exhibition I here allude to had, thanks to my situation, to do all the work they could in the way of representation to me of what was most publicly, most heroically, most wastefully, tragically, terribly going on.

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From this reading The long hot July 1st of '63, on which the huge battle of Gettysburg had begun, could really be--or rather couldn't possibly not be--a scrap of concrete experience for any group of united persons, New York cousins and all, who, in a Newport garden, restlessly strolling, sitting, neither daring quite to move nor quite to rest, quite to go in nor quite to stay out, actually _listened_ together, in their almost ignobly safe stillness, as to the boom of far-away guns.