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denied many things that have approached us, we deny ourselves to
Rejection has its pleasures, the more secret the more unmeasured.
various, than might haunt the dreams of decorators. There is no
is in itself a cause of pleasure to a mind generous, forbearing, and
of. When we write, what hinders that we should refrain from Style
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refinement. And refinement is not to be achieved but by rejection.
has offered up a singular blunder in honour of robustiousness.
negations. It is a thing of price as well as of value; it demands
is committed to such of us as, having apprehension of these things,
derogation was always so near, a daily danger, or when the reward of
sensitive, more threatened, and more important than other
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THE LESSON OF LANDSCAPE
The landscape, like our literature, is apt to grow and to get itself
LITTLE MORE which makes its insensible but persistent additions to
unluckily man becomes too explicitly conscious of her beauty, and
moderation, of that fast-disappearing grace of unconsciousness, and,
of landowning, above all, has made for luxury. Naturally the
the hills are round; the forms are all blunt; and the grass is so
points and curving away all abruptness. England is almost as blunt
work. And on all this we have, of set purpose, improved by our
little more is added to the greenness and the softness of the forest
idleness. Not a tree that is not impenetrable, inarticulate. Thick
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