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" We were in this place at ease and by choice, and had no evils to suffer or to fear; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... "
Miscellaneous essays. Political tracts. A journey to the Western islands of ... - Page 251
by Samuel Johnson - 1810
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Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature

Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 pages
...creative output had slowed to pamphleteering and desultory work on Lives of the English Poets), for "the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown...arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens" (36). What even this small wilderness shows us, he decides, is our own weakness, and "what are these...
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