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  • Here was no man's garden, but the unhandselled globe.

    "Feed from their eyes, dream you're alive, and feel, feel..." greygirlbeast 2008

  • Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.

    The American Scholar 2006

  • Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

    I. Essays. The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 1909

  • Green Mountains -- and pushed but a little way back in these hundred and fifty years, lies the primeval forest, trodden no longer now by the wasting redman, but untamed yet, almost unhandselled.

    Fort Amity Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • They desired me to marvel at everything; but that they themselves after past perils should be here again and ready, for no more than seamen's pay, to run their heads into perils yet unhandselled, was to these honest fellows no matter worth considering.

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Here was no man's garden, but the unhandselled globe.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.

    Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849) 1849

  • Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled [54] savage nature; out of terrible Druids [55] and Berserkers [56] come at last Alfred [57] and

    Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

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