ParnassusRalph Waldo Emerson Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881 - 534 pages |
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... speaking men have agreed in ad- miring . Each has its merits ; but I have found that the best of these collections do not contain certain gems of pure lustre , whilst they admit many of questionable claim . The voluminous octavos of ...
... speaking men have agreed in ad- miring . Each has its merits ; but I have found that the best of these collections do not contain certain gems of pure lustre , whilst they admit many of questionable claim . The voluminous octavos of ...
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... Speaking some unknown language , strange and sweet Of tropic isle remote , and , passing , hailed The village with the cheers of all their fleet ; Or , quarrelling together , laughed and railed Like foreign sailors landed in the street ...
... Speaking some unknown language , strange and sweet Of tropic isle remote , and , passing , hailed The village with the cheers of all their fleet ; Or , quarrelling together , laughed and railed Like foreign sailors landed in the street ...
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... speak out what was in him , clear and strong , Alike regardless of their smile or frown , And quite determined not to be laughed down . " Plato , anticipating the reviewers , From his republic banished with- out pity The poets : in this ...
... speak out what was in him , clear and strong , Alike regardless of their smile or frown , And quite determined not to be laughed down . " Plato , anticipating the reviewers , From his republic banished with- out pity The poets : in this ...
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... speak , where melo- dies Alone are the interpreters of thought ? Whose household words are songs in many keys , Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught ! Whose habitations in the tree - tops even Are half - way houses on the road to ...
... speak , where melo- dies Alone are the interpreters of thought ? Whose household words are songs in many keys , Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught ! Whose habitations in the tree - tops even Are half - way houses on the road to ...
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... speaking - trumpet ; back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice ; And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head . " Now whether " ( said I to our cordial friend , Who in the hey - day of astonishment Smiled in my face ) ...
... speaking - trumpet ; back out of the clouds Of Glaramara southward came the voice ; And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head . " Now whether " ( said I to our cordial friend , Who in the hey - day of astonishment Smiled in my face ) ...
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