William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… as his son William explained bluntly in an unpublished note kept at the Bodelian library: Some of my father’s intimate acquaintance he never saw. They respect him for his works, and write to him. Thus, an intercourse commences. And I have heard him say that possibly their acquaintance is best cultivated at a distance and that they might like each other’s hand-writing better than their … very trot of a horse is friendly to thought. It beats time, as it were, to a mind engaged in deep speculation. An old acquaintance of mine used to find its effect so strong, that he valued his horse for being a little given to stumbling. I …
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