* For a landscape painter.. ..simple natural scenes can also be delightful, as romantics does. Perhaps even more instructive, because the eye can find a more elementary harmony in it.. ..that's how the solemn [river] Rhine for Emmerik was there to me; how very simple the scene nevertheless was, I found it very beautiful.. .Truly beautiful.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "* For a landscape painter.. ..simple natural scenes can also be delightful, as romantics does. Perhaps even more instructive, because the eye can find a more elementary harmony in it.. ..that's how the solemn [river] Rhine for Emmerik was there to me; how very simple the scene nevertheless was, I found it very beautiful.. .Truly beautiful." in the context of "(original Dutch, citaat van B.C. Koekkoek:) Voor een landschapschilder.. ..kunnen eenvoudige natuurtaferelen even zoo strelend zijn, als romantische. Welligt leerzamer, daar het oog er meer eenvoudige harmonie in beschouwt.. .Zo was mij de statige Rijn voor Emmerik; hoe eenvoudig het tafereel ook was, ik vond het schoon.. .Waarlijk schoon.
 • p. 2-3" to mean that wisdom is timeless.