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Alfoxden Journal (1798) [ Practices ]
… A very clear afternoon. We lay sidelong upon the turf, and gazed on the landscape till it melted into more than natural loveliness. The sea very uniform, of a pale greyish blue, only one distant bay, bright and blue as a sky; had there been … A very clear afternoon. We lay sidelong upon the turf, and gazed on the landscape till it melted into more than natural loveliness." … Nature … Text taken from Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals , ed. Pamela Woof …
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To the Viscountess Andover (16 May 1769) [ People ]
… will return to the sprightly diversions of London and her friends there. I beg my best compliments to her. The Duchess's love, and Miss Dewes’s respects attend dear Lady Andover. I am your ladyship’s most affectionate and most obedient, M. …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… of dear friends. As he writes in another letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, of April 1818, ‘I could not live without the love of my friends’ (I, 267). 8 . Letter to J. H. Reynolds of 19 February 1818 (I, p. 232). The feeling was … Keats would give voice to the undying power of friendship: ‘I cannot bear the sight of any hand writing of a friend I love so much as I do you. […] I can scarcely bid you good bye even in a letter’ (II, 360). 9 . Letters of Fanny Brawne to …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… suggests scenes of ideal sociability. There will be no jealousy, no envy, no wish for pre-eminence, in heaven. All will love God with their utmost powers, and all will love their fellow-creatures as themselves, enjoying happiness in unison with others, and not wishing for peculiar favour, …
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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… control Evil by conjuring mysterious or magic forces. In general, Greatrakes’s performances were an elaborate tribute to love, life and union among his followers. 13 After all, he lived in a context permeated by the Royal Society Masonic …
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