OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



with the swallow there is sadness to- 

 day, with the fleck of cloud there is 

 unrest, but forward with the broad 

 sunlight, there is hope. — 'The Life of 

 the Fields': Sunlight in a London 

 Square. 



IT is a common effect of great things 

 to be overlooked. A moderately 

 large rock, a moderately large 

 house, is understood and mentally put 

 down, as it were, at a certain figure, 

 but the immense— which is beyond the 

 human— cannot enter the organs of the 

 senses. The portals of the senses are 

 not wide enough to receive it; you 

 must turn your back on it and reflect, 

 and add a little piece of it to another 

 little piece, and so build up your under- 

 standing.-' The Life of the Fields': 

 Venice in the East End. 



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