. Delices de la Grande Bretagne . y the embel-lifhing hand of nature. Columns and porticos of marble were lefs defirable : a grateful reverence fre-quently attends our admiration, amidft thefe folemn ruins, while the ftory recurs offequeftered piety, or fome great action performed in defence of liberty. Elegant and coftly ftructures are not wanting. Cultivation ( x )Cultivation afcends the tops of mountains, which, being generally attended withplanting, multiplies our pifture views, if it does not increafe their fublimity. The whole ifland is fcattered over with palaces of nobility, from whofe
. Delices de la Grande Bretagne . y the embel-lifhing hand of nature. Columns and porticos of marble were lefs defirable : a grateful reverence fre-quently attends our admiration, amidft thefe folemn ruins, while the ftory recurs offequeftered piety, or fome great action performed in defence of liberty. Elegant and coftly ftructures are not wanting. Cultivation ( x )Cultivation afcends the tops of mountains, which, being generally attended withplanting, multiplies our pifture views, if it does not increafe their fublimity. The whole ifland is fcattered over with palaces of nobility, from whofe improve-ments the combination of art and nature can effeft wonders. Even the irregular winding of our roads, with their numerous branches andinterferons, gives no fmall acquifition in point of choice for landfcape. A more particular enquiry might relate many other advantages in our pofTeffion:but if thefe already enumerated are to be equalled in any other country, the fafetyand freedom with which we enjoy them ftands n:/j\yn,m smjommta ]reyatold^sHoUS,- ummmgkdmill. JA,„^/,//.„.„,//\- (r7™..„/^///: $b$L»/_ C,,,...- Q M,i;,,lv,.,/-r80 bvW?Biir1,,ll«.i,pllcadneiUl],!CoTk::iiac View from Sir Jofhua Reynoldss Houfe, Richmond Hill. I *> HIS landfcape is a curiofity from its being one of the very few by Sir JofhnaReynolds, and a view from his own houfe. Sir Jofhua has not copied everyminutia of the fcene, but, like a great artift, has given its peculiar characters, andleading features; the cryftalline tranfparency of the ftream, with its boldnefs andbreadth of line, its elegancies of building embofomed in wood, and the diftant hillstinged with the foft blue of the pureft air. The fize of the pifture is 3 feet wide by2 feet 4 inches high, and in Sir Jofhua Reynoldss
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