Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . mousexpenditure for a sub-ject. But the result! Onecannot help agreeingwith Queen Adelaide,who exclaimed, on see-ing the house, that itought to be put under aglass case ! One cannot look at it awry : each side is perfect, each aspectnovel ; whether witnessing such an effect as the one above de-scribed, or standing where the Scotch firs on Arbour Hill reartheir ardent heights (so poetised by Mr. J. Russell Lowell), over-looking the swelling and dipping and tree-studded park to yondertowers upraised above their cedar terrace, and parterre o
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . mousexpenditure for a sub-ject. But the result! Onecannot help agreeingwith Queen Adelaide,who exclaimed, on see-ing the house, that itought to be put under aglass case ! One cannot look at it awry : each side is perfect, each aspectnovel ; whether witnessing such an effect as the one above de-scribed, or standing where the Scotch firs on Arbour Hill reartheir ardent heights (so poetised by Mr. J. Russell Lowell), over-looking the swelling and dipping and tree-studded park to yondertowers upraised above their cedar terrace, and parterre of many-coloured flowers ; whether wandering on sunny lawns, beneaththe fine details of architecture, noting the near effect of russet andgolden staining on the lower bases, where ore-ooze adds richnessto the old stones, on which a crawling spray of ivy is allowed torise so far, but no farther; or, yet again, roaming beyond the lake,to peer down a bough-hedged vista, and mark, over its shining,lily-strewn waters, the house standing in majestic THE TERRACE FRONT
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