[C]uriosity could not be satisfied by a bride in a pew, and it must be left for the visits in form which were then to be paid, to settle whether she were very pretty indeed, or only rather pretty, or not pretty at all.

He will steale sir an Egge out of a Cloister: for rapes and rauishments he paralels Nessus.

Though there are no kissings and clinchings, […]

There's a real United-Statesian bigness to some of the things Whitman says.