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Rousseau and Romanticism

Note 278 — Chapter IX · ROMANTIC MELANCHOLY

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Wordsworth writes

A piteous lot it were to flee from man Yet not rejoice in Nature. (Excursion, IV, 514.)

This lot was Vigny’s:

Ne me laisse jamais seul avec la Nature Car je la connais trop pour n’en avoir pas peur.

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