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... Emerson and Thoreau were distinguished members , this seems a fitting place to speak of them . The interest of Walden must depend on the taste of the reader . For my part I read it without boredom , but without exhilaration . It is very ...
... Emerson and Thoreau were distinguished members , this seems a fitting place to speak of them . The interest of Walden must depend on the taste of the reader . For my part I read it without boredom , but without exhilaration . It is very ...
Page 60
... Emerson , of course , is a figure of much greater substance . I was first led to read him many years ago by a fair - haired lady I met on the Lake of Como . On the excursions we took she always carried a volume of the Essays with her ...
... Emerson , of course , is a figure of much greater substance . I was first led to read him many years ago by a fair - haired lady I met on the Lake of Como . On the excursions we took she always carried a volume of the Essays with her ...
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... Emerson she would never really have grasped the spiritual significance of the Pacific Ocean . She died a little while ago at a ripe old age , but a disciple of Emerson to the last , and she left her yacht and her library to the gigolo ...
... Emerson she would never really have grasped the spiritual significance of the Pacific Ocean . She died a little while ago at a ripe old age , but a disciple of Emerson to the last , and she left her yacht and her library to the gigolo ...
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