Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . ster ! how can you endure thehorrid thicket ? Air Milestone. You are right, Miss Graziosa: yourtaste is correct—perfectly en regie. Now, here is thesame place corrected—trimmed—polished—decorated— adorned. Here sweeps a plantation, in that beautifulregular curve : there winds a gravel walk : here are partsof the old wood, left in these majestic circular clumps, dis-posed at equal distances with wonder
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . ster ! how can you endure thehorrid thicket ? Air Milestone. You are right, Miss Graziosa: yourtaste is correct—perfectly en regie. Now, here is thesame place corrected—trimmed—polished—decorated— adorned. Here sweeps a plantation, in that beautifulregular curve : there winds a gravel walk : here are partsof the old wood, left in these majestic circular clumps, dis-posed at equal distances with wonderful symmetry : thereare some single shrubs scattered in elegant profusion : herea Portugal laurel, there a juniper; here a laurustinus,there a spruce fir; here a larch, there a lilac ; here arhododendron, there an arbutus. The stream, you see,is become a canal: the banks are perfectly smooth andgreen, sloping to the waters edge : and there is LordLittlebrain, rowing in an elegant boat. Squire Headlong. Magical, faith ! Mr Milestone. Here is another part of the grounds inits natural state. Here is a large rock, with the moun-tain-ash rooted in its fissures, overgrown, as you THOMAS LOVE a Photograph by Maull & Fox. with ivy and mosi; and from this part of it bursts alittle fountain, that runs bubbling down its rugged sides. Miss Tenorina. O how beautiful ! How I should lovethe melody of that miniature cascade ! Mr Milestone. Beautiful, Miss Tenorina. , common, and popular. Such a thing as you maysee anywhere, in wild and mountainous districts. Now,observe the metamorphosis. Here is the same rock, cutinto the shape of a giant. In one hand he holds a horn,through which that little fountain is thrown to a prodigiouselevation. In the other is a ponderous stone, so exactlybalanced as to be apparently ready to fall on the head ofany person who may happen to be beneath : and there isLord Littlebrain walking under it. Sqnire Headlong. Miraculous,
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