Grasmere Journal (1800) [ Practices / People ]
… was very grand. The lichens are now coming out afresh. I carried home a collection in the afternoon. We had a pleasant conversation about the manners of the rich; avarice, inordinate desires, and the effeminacy, unnaturalness, and unworthy … a part of The Beggars in the morning.... A very mild moonlight night. Glow-worms everywhere. … "We had a pleasant conversation about the manners of the rich; avarice, inordinate desires, and the effeminacy, unnaturalness, and unworthy objects of education. The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow." … Conversation … Nature … Education … Taken from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (New York: Macamillan, 1897), vol. 1, p. …
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