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rocks, and the character of the Derwent, a torrent in which 

 force and fury prevail ; the cascades in it are innumerable ; 

 before the water is recovered from one fall, it is hurried 

 down another; and its agitation being thus increased by 

 repeated shocks, it pushes on with restless violence to the 

 next, where it dashes against fragments of rocks, or foams 

 among heaps of stones which the stream has driven together" 

 the dusky gloom at the iron forge, " close to the cascade 

 of the Weir, (between Ross and Monmouth) where the agita- 

 tion of the current is increased by large fragments of rocks, 

 which have been swept down by floods from the banks, or 

 shivered by tempests from the brow; and the sullen sound, 

 at stated intervals, from the strokes of the great hammers in 

 the forge, deadens the roar of the water-fall" the solitude, 

 the loveliness, and the stillness of Dovedale, " the whole of 

 which has the air of enchantment; grotesque as chance can 

 cast, wild as nature can produce" the monkish tomb-stones, 

 and the monuments of benefactors long since forgotten, 

 which appear above the green sward, at Tintern Abbey , 

 with its maimed effigies, and sculpture worn with age and 

 weather his view to the approach to Lord Cadogaris, near 

 Reading his feeling and enchanting description of the 

 Leasowes "the wonderful efforts which art has made at 

 Painshill to rival nature;" where the massy richness of its 

 hanging wood " gives an air of grandeur to the whole" the 

 Tinian, and other lawns, and noble and magnificent views in 

 that vast sylvan scene Hagley, where, in a spot which once 

 delighted Mr. Pope, is inscribed an urn to his memory, 

 " which, when shewn by a gleam of moonlight through the 

 trees, fixes that thoughtfulness and composure to which the 

 mind is insensibly led by the rest of this elegant scene." 



His section " Of the Seasons," where he descants on the 

 spirit of the morning, the excess of noon, or the temperance of 

 evening," must strike every one by its felicity of style ; and the 



