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Ideas of Good and Evil. which adds lightness and brightness to nature—

when Shakespeare wrote in the Greek way—

when Virgil wrote in the Greek way—

and

they looked at nature without ecstasy, but with the affection a man feels for the garden where he has walked daily and thought pleasant thoughts. They looked at nature in the modern way, the way of people who are poetical, but are more interested in one another than in a nature which has faded to be but friendly and 278