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Park became the resort of 

 ma; ul writers of the 



tune. Am.. he be- 



friended was Kieldin^. who 

 Ills l v pitied his friend for all 

 tmv ^ Mlworthy in 



I .111 luies." In that hook 

 he describes Prior Park in 

 glow in-: ter 



the splendid outlook and tle 

 multitudinous trees, omitting 

 the Palladian bridge, hut 

 extending tils vision tvyond 

 the height oi Lansdoxvn. 



I < Id ing dedicated 

 Vmli.i " to Allen, and alter 

 the novelist's death his 

 children were cared for hy his 

 l-eiu-tactor. P-ipe also was a 

 friend and admirer of Allen, 

 and in the Epilogue to the 

 "Satires of Horace" spi.iks 

 of him in a couplet which i. 

 familiar to every ear : 



I.rt hnml>lr Allrn. with wk- 



nnl hmr, 



It.. KIMH! l.y tr:ilth ami l>lu*ll to 

 titlfl it l.oiu." 



The friendship at one tinv was interrupted. 



.to the poet's desire to impose Maitha Blount upon the family 

 at Prior Park, or, according to aiinther story, to that lad\ 's 

 lux ing demanded Mr. Allen's chariot to convex her to the 

 Catholic Chapel in Bath. Whatever might have been the 

 cause of the breach, it was made giNtd, and Allen continued t 

 shower tavours upon Pope and his friends. One of these was 

 \\.nburton. who married (leraldin? Tucker, Allen's favour. te 

 niece, and who was appo.nted hy Pitt, it is said at the instance 



the philanthropist. Bishop ot Salisbury. Pitt was an 

 intimate trieiid of Allen's, and when the latter died he left the 

 great statesman ,l,OOO, "as the best of friends, as well .is 





THE MIDDLE STAGE OF THE CiKEAT STAIRWAY. 







. it is 



th.- mo,t upright and ahlest ol Ministers that ha\e adoined our 

 country." Pitt. Warhurtoii, Hurd. and other writers of the 

 tune, all speak of the splendid hospitality, the ^reat natural 

 ahility, the simple manners, and the elevated taste> o! Mien. 

 When the philanthropist died, in I7>'>. h- l>-:i one son, wlv> 

 ne (...mptroller of the Bye-Letter ( )ttice. and ol whom 

 comparatively little is known. Such was the man who 

 cr-iteJ Prior Park, and it is excellent testimony t<> 

 enliuhtrne.J tate and classic knowledge, that he clvse .1 fine 

 situation and built a house which stood lu-h amon^ the 

 palatial dwellings of the land, while he dispose I the whole i.f 

 the surroundings with a master hand to contribute to the eltt a. 



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THE PALLADUN BRIDGE. 



