"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground."
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Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.429
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