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... natural beauty . Love of nature had before been expressed in poetry , and on rare occasions in prose ; but with Rousseau it became a positive and self - conscious motive . Rousseau has been well described by Saintsbury as " A describer ...
... natural beauty . Love of nature had before been expressed in poetry , and on rare occasions in prose ; but with Rousseau it became a positive and self - conscious motive . Rousseau has been well described by Saintsbury as " A describer ...
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... nature to man is found in a poem which appeared so early as 1798 in that collaborative volume , Lyrical Ballads ... nature and abandoned direct teaching and preaching . And yet of him it has been truly and finally said by Lord Morley ...
... nature to man is found in a poem which appeared so early as 1798 in that collaborative volume , Lyrical Ballads ... nature and abandoned direct teaching and preaching . And yet of him it has been truly and finally said by Lord Morley ...
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... nature , and in that mood of " wise passiveness " which Words- worth teaches us to cultivate . 66 He went to nature , not to decorate his thoughts , but to find them . He went , not to make literary patterns , but to see into the life ...
... nature , and in that mood of " wise passiveness " which Words- worth teaches us to cultivate . 66 He went to nature , not to decorate his thoughts , but to find them . He went , not to make literary patterns , but to see into the life ...
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