...spirits, who discern and own that secret language, of which the privacy is not violated, though spoken in hearing of the uninitiated, — because it is not...that smiles on us alone ; and the more beautiful to as, because we feel as if chosen out from a crowd of lovers. Something analogous to this is felt in...

...spirits, who discern and own that secret language, of which the privacy is not violated, though spoken in hearing of the uninitiated, — because it is not understood. There is an unobserv* ed beauty that smiles on us alone ; and the more beautiful to us, because we feel as if chosen...

...spirits, who discern and own that secret language, of which the privacy is not violated, though spoken in hearing of the uninitiated, — because it is not...scenes of Nature and of Art. Let a hundred persons look from a hill-top over some transcendent landscape. Each will select from the wide-spread glory at his...

...spirits, who discern and own that secret language, of which the privacy is not violated, though spoken in hearing of the uninitiated, — because it is not...; and the more beautiful to us, because we feel as il chosen out from a crowd of lovers. Something analogous to this is felt in the grandest scenes of...

...spirits, who discern and own that secret language, of which the privacy is not violated, though spoken in hearing of the uninitiated, — because it is not...scenes of Nature and of Art. Let a hundred persons look from a hill-top over some transcendent landscape. Each will select from the wide-spread glory at his...

...read, as declarations published to the world, - but almost as secrets whispered to chosen ears . . . There is an unobserved beauty that smiles on us alone;...because we feel as if chosen out from a crowd of lovers. Epigraph: Ariosto, Satire IV (incorrectly cited as III): 'I have seen Tuscany, Lombardy, Romagna,/The...