I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.


Romance and Reality (1831)


I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were...

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were...

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were...

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were...