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... strong conviction that a great success might be attained by a writer who combined dramatic action with romantic description : so that the mind would be filled with the idea , and the heart with the feeling . We are anxious to avoid much ...
... strong conviction that a great success might be attained by a writer who combined dramatic action with romantic description : so that the mind would be filled with the idea , and the heart with the feeling . We are anxious to avoid much ...
Page 46
... strong lineaments of his countenance . Perhaps what the enlightened soldier took for the delusion of mistaken opinion did actually occur , for who has returned from that unknown world to explain by what forms and in what manner he was ...
... strong lineaments of his countenance . Perhaps what the enlightened soldier took for the delusion of mistaken opinion did actually occur , for who has returned from that unknown world to explain by what forms and in what manner he was ...
Page 48
... strong , but not universal , and this gives an air of monotony to many of his works . He also takes an undue advantage of certain opportunities to give lectures , and hence the didactic tone of many dialogues interspersed in the novels ...
... strong , but not universal , and this gives an air of monotony to many of his works . He also takes an undue advantage of certain opportunities to give lectures , and hence the didactic tone of many dialogues interspersed in the novels ...
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... the " Ode to Beauty " Emerson presses much meaning into small compass . How unlike the common - place love verses of the many are the following ! It is truly refreshing • to get hold of a strong thinker , however 50 RALPH WALDO EMERSON .
... the " Ode to Beauty " Emerson presses much meaning into small compass . How unlike the common - place love verses of the many are the following ! It is truly refreshing • to get hold of a strong thinker , however 50 RALPH WALDO EMERSON .
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Thomas Powell. • to get hold of a strong thinker , however rugged may be his revelations . " Who gave thee , O Beauty , The keys of this breast ? Too credulous lover , Of blest and unblest . " Simplicity is here carried to its severity ...
Thomas Powell. • to get hold of a strong thinker , however rugged may be his revelations . " Who gave thee , O Beauty , The keys of this breast ? Too credulous lover , Of blest and unblest . " Simplicity is here carried to its severity ...
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Acadian admiration Alnwick Castle American Annabel Lee beauty beneath breath Bryant Byron Cachuca Carmelite character charm Coleridge consider Cooper critic Dana dark death dramatist dream earth elaborate elegant Emerson England English evidence expression fact feel force genius George Sand give gondola grave Halleck hand hath heard heart heaven HYPOLITO illustration intellect JARED SPARKS Kirkland lady land Leigh Hunt light lines living Longfellow look Margaret Fuller mind Miss Fuller monomania NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS nation Natty Bumppo never o'er once opinion passion peculiar philosopher poem poet poet's poetical poetry popular Prescott present prose quote Ralph Waldo Emerson reader remarks romance scene seems Shakspeare singular smile soul sound spirit stanza style sure sweet thee things thou thought throw tion true truth verse voice Willis woman word Wordsworth writings