

FRAGMENT XXVII. 



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GARDENS OF ASHRIDGE. 



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Of all the subjects on which I have been 

 excited so much interest in my mind as the Plan 

 Gardens. This may partly be attributed to the importance and 

 eculiar circumstances of the place, but 



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more 



espe 



ially to its being the youngest favourite; the child of my age 



declining powers 



wh 



en 



longer able to undertake th 



more extensive plans of Landscape, I was glad to contract my 

 views within the narrow circle of the Garden, independent o 

 its accompaniment of distant scenery. 



The large and magnificent Palace recently erected in 

 best style of Gothic Architecture by James Wyatt, presents two 

 fronts of more than six hundred feet, of beautiful stone, by a 



depth of one hundred and thirty to one hundred and seventy 



from the richness of its orna- 



dered 



tly 



feet from north to south; an 

 ments, and the' quantity of its mass, it must be 

 one of the most splendid specimens of wealth 

 pended under the guidance of taste. 



It may perhaps be asked by the fastidious Antiquary, whe- 

 ther the whole Edifice most resembles a Castle, an Abbey, or a 



Collegiate Pile. To which may be given this simple answer: 



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