“Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,
Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!”
Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) English critic, essayist, poet and writer
Politics and Poetics
“With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.”
The Story of Rimini
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