EMERSON 3

WALT WHITMAN 111

A STUDY OF ROMEO 131

MICHAEL ANGELO'S SONNETS 153

THE FOURTH CANTO OF THE INFERNO 173

ROBERT BROWNING 185

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 217





EMERSON


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"Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude,
lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need
not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede
anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and
draw individuals out of them. The worst of charity is that the lives