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314 grass will only be to be found in the dictionary." "What a valuable art will landscape painting be in those days! A view from nature will, both for beauty and rarity, be the chef d'œuvre of an artist." "I must own, landscapes are not my favourite style of art: it is the feeling, more than the seeing, of the country in which I delight; the warm, soft air—the many musical noises—the wandering through the lights and shadows of the thick trees, rather than looking on any given point of view." "I do agree with you—I hate a fine prospect by profession—one that you are expected to admire, and say fine things about; but in landscapes I like and dislike what I do in Wordsworth's poetry: I admire its mountain range of distant hill and troubled sky—or the lonely spot of inland shade, linked with human thought and human interest; but I detest its small pieces of rurality, its sheep and its cows. In painting, as in poetry, I like to be somewhat carried out of my every-day existence. For example, I give my utmost praise—or, I should rather say, my homage—to the Ode on Immortality, Tintern Abbey, &c. ; but my taste revolts from Goody