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Ralph Waldo Emerson:Essays, Excerpt 104

Ralph Waldo Emerson《Essays》· Essays · Health · Leadership

22. His lyric power lies in the genius of the piece. The sonnets, though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they: and it is not a merit of lines, but a total merit of the piece; like the tone of voice of some incomparable person, so is this a speech of poetic beings, and any clause as unproducible now as a whole poem.

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Locator:Excerpt 104 · Verified:2026-10-19 · Verification:Short excerpt

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