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ments ; or else the more pointed forms of 

 Gothic splendour and ma gni lice nee, such 

 as wc often view thcni in reality, and as 

 they strike the imagination in Milton's 

 flowing description of 



-Some lenown'd metropolis. 



With glittering' spires and pinnacles adorn'd, 

 Which now the rising sun gilds with his beams. 



What a different aspect would a city pre- 

 sent, in which all the buildings were nearly 

 of the same height, and roofs and chimnies 

 the most conspicuous objects ! such, how- 

 ever, is the appearance of a number of ex- 

 pensive houses in the country. Yet, in my 

 opinion, a mansion with its offices, as being 

 a mass of building independent of all others, 

 the highest parts of which are not eclipsed 

 by the superior height and magnitude of 

 other edifices, but are conspicuous from alj 

 parts, has very little relation in its generai 

 character to a house in a city : it should 

 ratlier be considered in point of effect, and 

 iV'lien viewed at some distance, as a whole 



