“Anglo-Saxon has not been cultivated into a better form, but has been corrupted for the worse, since King Alfred's days.”

Arguing that the development of standard English had involved a loss rather than an improvement in the language · Se Gefylsta

• Change
• History
• Language

“Nature is the best school of art.”

Expressing his belief that artists should learn directly from the natural world · Essay, Thoughts on Beauty and Art

• Art
• Learning
• Nature

“The beautiful in Nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will, and the beautiful in Art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in Nature.”

Connecting artistic beauty with faithful attention to the beauty of nature · Essay, Thoughts on Beauty and Art

• Art
• Beauty
• Nature

“It is rich in humour, strong in raillery and hyperbole, and altogether as fit a vehicle of rustic feeling and thought, as the Doric is found in the Idyllia of Theocritus.”

Celebrating dialect as an expressive literary medium suited to rural life · A Dissertation on the Dorset Dialect of the English Language

• Expression
• Humour
• Language

“The Dorset dialect is a broad and bold shape of the English language, as the Doric was of the Greek.”

Defending Dorset speech as a rich and legitimate form of English rather than a corrupted one · A Dissertation on the Dorset Dialect of the English Language

• Culture
• Identity
• Language