Page:Some unpublished letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau; a chapter in the history of a still-born book.djvu/107

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genuineness of his philosophy. He takes his place beside Socrates, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius:


"A soul supreme, in each hard instance tried."


The crayon portrait—now in the Concord Free Library—was drawn by Samuel Worcester Rowse, and may safely be accepted as 'an excellent likeness' of Thoreau without a beard. Writing from England to Professor Norton, the poet Clough bears this testimony to the fidelity of Rowse's crayons: "Child brought me your present of Emerson's picture, which is really, I think, the best portrait of any living and known-to-me man that I have ever seen. It is a great pleasure to possess it." One year later, he had not changed his

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