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Richard Jefferies
English
Writer
Born:
Nov 6
,
1848
Died:
Aug 14
,
1887
Alone
Good
Man
Me
Soul
Will
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No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
Richard Jefferies
Day
History
Matter
Will
Evil
Men
Own
Our
Despot
Tyrant
Sight
Bitterest
Rushed
Saddest
Most
Execute
Read
Ready
How
However
His
Hands
Serve
Eagerly
If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.
Richard Jefferies
Plant
Every
Flower
Everything
Locality
Would
Charm
Varies
Gives
Were
Exist
Interest
Places
Found
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.
Richard Jefferies
Way
Would
Tries
Seem
Observing
Fails
Another
Ant
Where
Place
Succeeds
Works
A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.
Richard Jefferies
Will
Wind
Calm
Autumn
Breath
Down
Summer
Silk
Atmosphere
He
Days
Dead
Does
Hover
Still
Coming
Were
Falls
Straight
Showers
Raining
Early
Soft
I desire a greatness of soul, an irradiance of mind, a deeper insight, a broader hope.
Richard Jefferies
Hope
Soul
Mind
Broader
Insight
Greatness
Deeper
Desire
That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.
Richard Jefferies
Me
Soul
Beauty
Divine
May
Bring
Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.
Richard Jefferies
Man
Woman
Master
Own
Every
Way
See
Over
Likes
Concern
Another
Another Woman
Does
Endure
Who
Even
Her
Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.
Richard Jefferies
Good
Sometimes
Walk
Will
Sunday
Black
Clothes
Every
Dress
Pot
Betrays
He
Almost
Him
How
His
Very
Labourer
Often
Unfortunate
Chimney
Really
Regulation
Suit
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.
Richard Jefferies
Work
Impossible
Single
Believe
Thoroughly
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Find
Proper
Cottage
Throughout
Well
Fit
Any
Done
Human
Estate
Human Beings
Breadth
Length
Landed
Landlords
Farmers
Large
Beings
Now
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