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landscape from such a palace as Wentworth House, 

 although, from many situations in the park, it is a very 

 interesting feature. 



3. The vast plain, which has with so much difficulty 

 been obtained in front of the house, is exactly propor- 

 tionate to the extent of the edifice, and tends to impress 

 the ideas of magnificence which so great a work of art 

 is calculated to inspire. Such a plain forms an ample 

 base for the noble structure which graces its extremity; 

 the building and the plain are evidently made for each 

 other, and, consequently, to increase the dimensions of 

 either seems unnecessary. 



The foregoing reasons relate to the hill as considered 

 from the house only ; I shall now consider it in other 

 points of view. 



Wentworth Park consists of parts, in themselves 

 truly great and magnificent. The woods, the lawns, 

 the water, and the buildings are all separately striking; 

 but, considered as a whole, there is a want of connex- 

 ion and harmony in the composition, because parts, in 

 themselves large, if disjoined, lose their importance. 

 This, I am convinced, is the effect of too great an 

 expanse of unclothed lawn, but when the young trees 

 shall have thrown a mantle over this extensive knoll, 

 all the distant parts will assume one general harmony, 

 and the scattered masses of this splendid scenery will 

 be connected and brought together into one vast and 

 magnificent whole. 



The use of a plantation on this hill, in the approach 

 from Rotherham, is evident, from the effect of a small 

 clump which will form a part of this great mass, and 

 which now hides the house, till, by the judicious bend 

 round that angle, the whole building bursts at once 

 upon the view. 



