. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. and the imagery carried,without impropriety, to the most daring height. They have been accused ofobscurity : but the one can be obscure to those only who have not read Pindar ;and the other only to those who are unacquainted with the history of theirown nation. 111 th
. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. and the imagery carried,without impropriety, to the most daring height. They have been accused ofobscurity : but the one can be obscure to those only who have not read Pindar ;and the other only to those who are unacquainted with the history of theirown nation. 111 the character of his Elegy, says Dr. Johnson, I rejoice to concurwith the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted VOL. II. Q STOKE POGIS CHURCH. with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty, and the dogmatismof learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. TheChurchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and withsentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The few stanzas een these bones, are to me original; I have never seen the notions in anyother place; yet he that reads them here, persuades himself that he has alwaysfelt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, anduseless to praise him. ^ ^ ^Q w m Is;. ?\v.
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