| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8401 |
| QUOTATION: | I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
And not in paths of high morality,
And not among the half-distinguished faces,
The clouded forms of long-past history. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emily Brontė (1818–1848), British poet, novelist. Ofte rebuked, yet always back returning (l. 9–12). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontė. C. W. Hatfield, ed. (1941) Columbia University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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