The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . rs, pans, faunes,syrens, kit with the can sticke, tritons, centaurs, dwarfes, giantes,imps, calcars, conjurors, nymphes, changelings, incubus, Robin-good-fellow, the spoorne, the mare, the man in the oka, the hell-waine,the fier drake, the puckle, Tom Thombe, hobgoblins, Tom Tumbler,boneless, and such other bugs, that we were afraid of our ownshadows. 188 THE SKETCH-BOOK the pure air as freely, and lolls as luxuriously under the shade,as the lord of the soi
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . rs, pans, faunes,syrens, kit with the can sticke, tritons, centaurs, dwarfes, giantes,imps, calcars, conjurors, nymphes, changelings, incubus, Robin-good-fellow, the spoorne, the mare, the man in the oka, the hell-waine,the fier drake, the puckle, Tom Thombe, hobgoblins, Tom Tumbler,boneless, and such other bugs, that we were afraid of our ownshadows. 188 THE SKETCH-BOOK the pure air as freely, and lolls as luxuriously under the shade,as the lord of the soil; and if he has not the privilege of callingall that he sees his own, he has not, at the same time, thetrouble of paying for it, and keeping it in order. 26. I now found myself among noble avenues of oaks andelms, whose vast size besp6ke the growth of centuries. Thewind sounded solemnly among their branches, and the rookscawed from their hereditary nests in the tree-tops. Theeye ranged through a long lessening vista, with nothing tointerrupt the view but a distant statue; and a vagrant deerstalking like a shadow across the f^=jtW>,;y;,*vyiMiiiiy\.i>^^^^^^^ ••??? Charlecot Hall 27. There is something about these stately old avenuesthat has the effect of Gothic architecture, not merely fromthe pretended similiarity of form, but from their bearing theevidence of long duration, and of having had their origin ina period of time with which we associate ideas of romanticgrandeur. They betoken also the long-settled dignity, andproudly concentrated independence of an ancient family;and I have heard a worthy but aristocratic old friend observe,when speaking of the sumptuous palaces of modern gentry,that money could do much with stone and mortar, but,thank Heaven, there was no such thing as suddenly buildingup an avenue of oaks. 28. It was from wandering in early life among this rich STRATFORD-OK-AVON 189 scenery, and about the romantic solitudes of the adjoiningpa
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