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Pindar after the ancient manner for the 

 entertainment of Christina of Sweden, was 

 obliged to desist at the end of the first strophe, 

 as the effect on the risible muscles of the 

 audience was too powerful to allow him to 

 finish the lofty strain. 



The various beauties in the neighbourhood 

 of Keswick the loveliness of Derwent lake, 

 the grandeur and gloom of the mountains, 

 with the noble and extensive views from the 

 top of Latrigg and of lofty Skiddaw have 

 been so often and so eloquently described, 

 that to enlarge upon them here would be 

 like the attempt to " gild refined gold." 

 Yet, notwithstanding all that poets and 

 painters have done to describe those scenes, 

 no pencil can adequately portray their 

 charms, nor pen convey the sensations which 

 are felt on beholding them. At early morn : 



" from the dell 



Mount to the ridge 



Thence look thou forth o'er wood and lawn, 

 Hoar with the frost- like dews of dawn ; 



