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* W • With: Tliat Natural Clieerfulness ...
• manner , which , while it shows an intelligent comprehension of the Ideaeffectuallhinders the theorist from developing * it any farther .
I have , gone _licable so y far to as ourselve to say , s that hidden there in were this still natural deeper fact truths but , and I more ;
grieve app to say A . shows small _^ appreciation of my philosophical and moral discoveries . Therefore , oh much-enduring public ! for your
benefit will I reserve them , though whether they shall be administered Behind to you out under house the is form a most of delicious epic or essay woode is d yet glen undecided , through . which _,
runs a river , sometimes rushing noisily down over a stony decli-With vity , calm and white then quietl water y -lili floating es ling on on throug its still h surface the clover . On meadows the other ,
bank of this river is & place A y . chose for her morning picture . The subject ture ' s lad was " to bent be , over the the " Secret waters Place till " " beaut where y Wordsworth born of murmuring ' s " Nay
sound would pass into her face . " A secret place it is , and one which can I think onl we be may reached feel b quite wading secure ankle has deep not been throug painted h the stream before _* and It
four times y daily is that y operation performed by our enterprising , A ., for two jouriries each way are needed to carry over easel , picture ,
canvas , umbrella * and colors ; to say nothing of shoes and stockings . It is so quiet and still there * that the other day she found a squirrel in the box beside herinvestiher tubes of paint
lii some laces the river , is very gating deep , and one part which . is overhung with trees p serves as an admirable swimming bathand was used
, , hy is also A . till hy —— the - ' bank _, but patience of the river ! For , I accompany one of her her afternoon ; the way pictures there , which being
less adventurous , though even for that we have to cross a pole bridge , shake and cdnsideriiig and we are that heavil the river laden rushes with materials below , and for foiir the pole or five is hours apt to ' y
, employment , I considerthe intrepid and agile way in which we run across Books is very creditable and to us work . are disposed around the easeland
to th _6 se , I newspapers address Myself , , reclining comfortably on the air cushions , , which also are a boon we owe to our invaluable B _~— -a . Yes , I
acknowledge it , that they , as well as the gimlets , were her kind thought , and for , the having advice _beiaentted which at by the _btfth moment j I freely I extend felt slig to htl her y insulting my forgiveness to my
proximity prudence , . L e But . , that work I would and _reading not pack have lip occasionall both gifts y in to be a dangerous laid aside
when I am _called upon ( in terrible dearth of models , as you may well believe ) to figure as & graceful maiden wandering by the river ' s
brink . _A-ndsubh is my _devotion to art , that I have retained without quested wincing to , that assume _fcalin even expression while the of rays pensive of an sweetness August sun which were I _« was eiasibly
re-, ing melting or evening my spine excursions and drying have u |> we my ever brains seen . anybody Neither , in except our mom once
or twice _amower , or a little child on her -road to school . So se-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/40/
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