. American scenery. nt, where the attic birdTrills her thick warbled notes the summer long. Where and when, indeed, have greatness or goodness astonishedand blessed the world, unnurtured by the sacred manna whichNature, in her varied forms, provides? At this point of his discourse, Mr. Deepredde was suddenly 20 THE EOMANCE OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. brouglit up by a sacrilegious hint tliat the small hours werecoining; and a general movement among our guests ensued. A Mercredi/ said one of us. We will not fail you! cried another. Have your portfolio ready, advised a third. With the especial subject
. American scenery. nt, where the attic birdTrills her thick warbled notes the summer long. Where and when, indeed, have greatness or goodness astonishedand blessed the world, unnurtured by the sacred manna whichNature, in her varied forms, provides? At this point of his discourse, Mr. Deepredde was suddenly 20 THE EOMANCE OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. brouglit up by a sacrilegious hint tliat the small hours werecoining; and a general movement among our guests ensued. A Mercredi/ said one of us. We will not fail you! cried another. Have your portfolio ready, advised a third. With the especial subject of the evening, said a fourth. And we will each weave around it our garland of factand fiction, promised a fifth. And our word for it! sang out the last, as his formvanished in the outer darkness, enough copy shall be elicitedto satisfy the cravings of the most carnivorous devil that everworried the soul of poor author : and of a quality, too, letus flatter ourselves, to win the patient ear of many a CHAPTER II. On the appointed evening, our impromptu committee re-as-Bembled. Mr. Deepredde was called to the chair, and theminutes of the previous meeting—that is, dear reader, the fore-going chapter—were read and ordered to be printed. Theportfolio was opened, and we selected from its stores theaccompanying charming picture of the famous Park fountain: We cannot do better than thus begin at home, observedan original and profound thinker. Let us avoid the vulgarerror of undervaluing those beauties and delights which liewithin our daily reach. Fountains, solemnly observed the respected chairman, byway of initiating the subject of the night, have from the remotestperiods, and among all people, been objects of especial varied shape and costliness, they embellished all the chieftowns of ancient Greece. Old Pausanius has left us accountsof many of these favourite structures. Among others, he men-tions a most remarkable one at Epidemus, in the sacred grov
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