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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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Quoted in Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Emerson, the Mind On Fire (Univ. of Calif Press 1995), p124.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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