ParnassusRalph Waldo Emerson Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 - 534 pages |
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... nature , these we love . Pope is the best type of the one class : he had all the advantage that taste and wit could give him , but never rose to grandeur or to pathos . Milton had all its advantages , but was also poet born . Chaucer ...
... nature , these we love . Pope is the best type of the one class : he had all the advantage that taste and wit could give him , but never rose to grandeur or to pathos . Milton had all its advantages , but was also poet born . Chaucer ...
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... nature , being too susceptible , is over - acted on by others . The religious sentiment teaching the immensity of every moment , the indifference of mag- nitude , the present is all , the soul is God ; - this lesson is great and ...
... nature , being too susceptible , is over - acted on by others . The religious sentiment teaching the immensity of every moment , the indifference of mag- nitude , the present is all , the soul is God ; - this lesson is great and ...
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... Poems may please by their talent and ingenuity ; but , when they charm us , it is because they have this quality , for this is the union of nature with thought . R. W. E. CONTENTS LAND . - SEA . - SKY . · PREFACE . xi.
... Poems may please by their talent and ingenuity ; but , when they charm us , it is because they have this quality , for this is the union of nature with thought . R. W. E. CONTENTS LAND . - SEA . - SKY . · PREFACE . xi.
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... NATURE . Bothie of Tober na Vuolich , From the Boy Poet , The Breeding Lark . Cave of Staffa Cloud , The Coral Grove , The . Corinna's going a - Maying Country Life , The Dawn Daffodills , To ... Nature Nature Night and Death Night Channing.
... NATURE . Bothie of Tober na Vuolich , From the Boy Poet , The Breeding Lark . Cave of Staffa Cloud , The Coral Grove , The . Corinna's going a - Maying Country Life , The Dawn Daffodills , To ... Nature Nature Night and Death Night Channing.
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... Nature Nature Night and Death Night Channing . Ben Jonson James Beattie J. Blanco White . Beattie Shakspeare Keats Night . Nightingale , The Nightingale Nightingale , The Nightingale's Death - Song , The Nightingale's Song , The Ocean ...
... Nature Nature Night and Death Night Channing . Ben Jonson James Beattie J. Blanco White . Beattie Shakspeare Keats Night . Nightingale , The Nightingale Nightingale , The Nightingale's Death - Song , The Nightingale's Song , The Ocean ...
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