ParnassusRalph Waldo Emerson Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 - 534 pages |
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Page iv
... never rose to grandeur or to pathos . Milton had all its advantages , but was also poet born . Chaucer , Shakspeare , Jonson ( despite all the pedantic lumber he dragged with him ) , Herbert , Herrick , Collins , Burns , of the other ...
... never rose to grandeur or to pathos . Milton had all its advantages , but was also poet born . Chaucer , Shakspeare , Jonson ( despite all the pedantic lumber he dragged with him ) , Herbert , Herrick , Collins , Burns , of the other ...
Page vi
... never was poetry mar- ried to more exquisite music : " and the Duchess of Newcastle relates , that her husband , himself a good reader , said he " never heard any man read well but Ben Jonson . " - Spence reports , that Pope said to him ...
... never was poetry mar- ried to more exquisite music : " and the Duchess of Newcastle relates , that her husband , himself a good reader , said he " never heard any man read well but Ben Jonson . " - Spence reports , that Pope said to him ...
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... never married to so much wit . Herbert identifies him- self with Jewish genius , as Michael Angelo did when carving or painting prophets and patriarchs , not merely old men in robes and beards , but with the sanctity and the character ...
... never married to so much wit . Herbert identifies him- self with Jewish genius , as Michael Angelo did when carving or painting prophets and patriarchs , not merely old men in robes and beards , but with the sanctity and the character ...
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... never seems to end , Always the night whose day does never set ; One harvest and one reaper , ne'er too ripe , Sown by the self - preserver , free from mould , And builded in these granaries of heaven , This ever - living purity of air ...
... never seems to end , Always the night whose day does never set ; One harvest and one reaper , ne'er too ripe , Sown by the self - preserver , free from mould , And builded in these granaries of heaven , This ever - living purity of air ...
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... never had been heard . But blither still and louder carolled they Upon the morrow , for they seemed to know It was the fair Almira's wedding- day ; And everywhere , around , above , below , When the Preceptor bore his bride away , Their ...
... never had been heard . But blither still and louder carolled they Upon the morrow , for they seemed to know It was the fair Almira's wedding- day ; And everywhere , around , above , below , When the Preceptor bore his bride away , Their ...
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