 | Richard Jefferies - 1885 - 320 pages
...can be found by those who search for it. Dearly as I love the open air, I cannot regret the mediaeval days. I do not wish them back again ; I would sooner...and the sea, and the sun, will always be with us. ON THE LONDON ROAD. THE road comes straight from London, which is but a very short distance off, within... | |
 | Richard Jefferies - 1885 - 336 pages
...can be found by those who search for it. Dearly as I love the open air, I cannot regret the mediaeval days. I do not wish them back again ; I would sooner...and the sea, and the sun, will always be with us. ON THE LONDON ROAD. THE road comes straight from London, which is but a very short distance off, within... | |
 | Richard Jefferies - 1893 - 294 pages
...can be found by those who search for it. Dearly as I love the open air, I cannot regret the mediaeval days. I do not wish them back again ; I would sooner...attain ; still the sweet air, and the hills, and the sta, aud tlie sun, will always be with ua. ON THE LONDON ROAD. THE road cornea straight from London,... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1909 - 396 pages
...forgets, he would never desert, men and the present. ' The forest is gone,' he writes at Eltham, ' but the spirit of Nature stays, and can be found by...and the sea, and the sun, will always be with us.'* But these essays are not to be judged by the thoughts which occur in them. In the best he has created... | |
 | F. Leavis - 1968 - 352 pages
...life behind the scenes, ' he says 1 ' Dearly as I love the open air, I cannot regret the mediaeval days. I do not wish them back again, I would sooner fight in the foremost ranks of Time.' — 'Outside London'. 207 in 'One of the New Voters' and it might often serve as his epigraph; that... | |
 | Queenie Dorothy Leavis, Q. D. Leavis - 1989 - 370 pages
...See Thomas's Life and Bibliography. 10 'Dearly as I love the open air, I cannot regret the mediaeval days. I do not wish them back again, I would sooner fight in the foremost ranks of Time.' - 'Outside London'. 11 No selection from it is given in either anthology but it is fortunately still... | |
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Dearly as I love the open air, I cannot regret the mediaeval days. I do not wish them back again ; I would sooner fight in the foremost ranks of Time. Nor do we need them, for the spirit of nature stays, and will always be here, no matter to how high... 