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474 Herman Melville
The History of Literature
The Difference Between Melville and Emerson
Melville was optimistic and looked for the good in people but he was also shrewdly observant and canny enough not to be naive. In an 1849 letter Melville wrote quote I have been passing my time very pleasurably here but chiefly in lounging on a sofa a la the poet gray and reading Shakespeare it is an addition in glorious great type every letter where of is a soldier and the top of every tea like a musket barrel dolten asked that I am. with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian he thinks when beds are scarce and he's contemplating whether it's safe to share one with Queque Queg like ish male Melville liked what Emerson
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