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America. The wonder is the little house 
should still remain intact, especially the staircase, 
which has gone to the United States by the shi 
load without suffering any visible diminution. 
uskin says most truly д the best чы 
of touring about the country is on foot, pac 
slowly ; ; rs Ienjoyed this Масу costly бийм 
е, e, when visiting Cha Ifo nt St. Giles. 
fields, while in gardens the Dutch bulbs were past 
their best blossoms, and the bedding season was 
at hand when I quitted less delectable scenes 
and greo my tent at Rickmansworth for a 
short time, There are several noted places with 
famous айдын near the town, such as Moor Park, 
within a mile, Cassiobury, near Watford, and Haro- 
tield Place, which Milton himself described as 
“ Bosom’d high in tufted trees, 
Where, perhaps, some beauty lies, 
The cynosure of neighbouring eyes." 
Slow pacing through a chalk district well 
soil, with woods and Cherry or- 
appearance. The gr 
wealthy owner. The ancient family of Cheyne 
e єт Sape re 
last heiress with the first Earl of Bedford. The 
Russells occupied the old Manor House near the 
church, now partly inhabited as a Sona 
long enough before removing to Woburn to 
convert it into a first-rate sixteenth century 
Mansion with a quadrangle, one wing of which 
alone remains solidly built of red brick, with 
Chenies ‚ and the 
fishing since the days of Isaac Walton wound up 
the article. 
The rest of the road to Chalfont St. Giles lay 
through a more open country, with the chalk 
nearer to the surface, and the woods less frequent. 
The village lies a little off the main road from 
London, on a by-road leading to 
Beaconsfield, and Milton’s 
ar its gabled end ahatting on the ro 
ow of ordinary cottages stands near it, and the 
cottage itself, instead of having Milton's name 
inscribed on it,as at one time, has the words 
* County eem ren instead. e police- 
wh resi is shrine, which 
the Poets," formerly had charge of Hughenden, 
when the owner was premier and dynamite was 
much in vogue. He described Lord Beacons- 
field as sometimes sauntering down the park after 
lunch, when he would sit in the garden of the 
in the garden 
old retainer. The end of a cigar might 
5 iet, too, blushing when lighted with matches 
from the But this was make-believe, 
an amiable trick nok unknown to that great man. 
on the ben 
; off, 
` and the cigar would drop from his hand. А very 
short repose сы he would resume his 
the green sward, up хасаа nd 
lies around Milton's Cottage, a garden and a 
ather level land. The beehives 
in the garden are cosy looking, and the creepers 
on the house wall suit the old-fashioned style of 
this last but one of Milton’s many homes. As 
for the scenery around the dwelling, the beauty 
of a landscape had become a matter of indifference 
to him—all outlooks were alike; and as one 
thinks of the blind poet sitting here in the sun, 
or taking his glass of water and pipe at night— 
for some blind folk do smoke, though not man a 
one row Й recalls those pathetic lines in 
Samson Agonis 
“ О, loss of hee of thee I most complain.” 
on was, of course, a reader of Milton, and 
perhaps one of his short criticisms of Paradise 
Lost conveys more than many longer ones; “A 
little heavy,” he said, “ but not less divine!” 
Yet Milton only, of all the poets, could have 
imagined such Weed imagery as the following 
verses, which may be welcome hey 
refer to flowers н their characteristics : — 
“ Bring the rath Primrose that forsaken ae 
The tufted Crow-toe, and pale Jessamine 
GUILDFORD CASTLE. 
We are indebted to ackman, of 
Woking, for the plan illustrated in figs. 97, 98, and 
showing his proposals for laying out the grounds of 
Guildford Castle as a pleasure- ground. Ер.] 
The Castle keep (fig. 98, 1) stands on the south 
ificial m 
side ofthe town, on an arti 
pa 
maes extent, for its о 
among many of the surrounding dwelling-houses, 
and он! caves or vaults a in its vicinity 
are supposed to be connected w 
n its original state the birê probably covered 
from б to б acres of groun 
its outward form, and the solidity of its construction 
appears to have defied the dilapidating hand of Tim 
south 45 and it is about 70 feet in height. 
walls are in many [җе 10 feet in thickness, but 
they nid езу 
Е e sum xin d Бе picturesque = deme s 
uin we eey with additional pleasure the lan 
че around. The windings of the river ааа St. Cathe: 
Fic. 07.—sECTIONS SHOWING THE LEVEL OF THE GROUND. (szE FIG. 98.) 
The white v oon the Pansy freak'd with jet, 
The glowing 
The musk 55 р the well-attired ha yt 
With Cowslips wan, that hang the pen ng 
nd every flower that sad embroidery тан 
Bid Amaranthus all his beaut se 
And Daffodillies fill their cups wit 
To strew the laureat hearse where ‘Lyell lies.” 
After the completion ^m Paradise Lost ihe 
t showed the manusc to his friend and 
"mee Mr. Енос" * But what has thou 
f Paradise found?" inquired Elwood. 
Milton was silent, but he gave an answer after- 
wards in Р; aradise Regained. There are two 
rooms edi on the ground floor of the little 
cottage—a small parlour on the right, and a 
more spacious but very low apartment on the 
left, where Paradise Lost and the commencement 
of dori Regained were dictated to E "cim 
Minshull, “the Mrs. Milton,” as Byron 
ge hee. And here Mr. Howitt, visiting this. 
“shrine” twenty years ago, found the occupier 
of the house at that time a tailor, seated on the 
table and engaged with his х еріте мнв 
irousers. After the Plague Milton 
Bunhill ike and his next Esp hu was а still 
rned to 
rine's Hill, dotted at the base with cottages and 
surmounted by its cives chapel ; the command- 
woodlands in the distance, 
bird’ s eye view beneath. 
- 2L history nor tradition informs u s by whom 
at whattime it was built, but some authorities 
have a disposed to ттүү it an existence prior to 
the an Conquest; others, and perhaps on 
more hene a data, have feter the date of its 
erection to the eleventh century, as the nature 
of its construction and ke "d ж architecture bear 
e resemblance to isti ns 
of the тни huh a 
{ш earliest mention by name our ann 
in the reign of King John. "When, on og is 30, 
1216, Prince Louis, the Dauphin of Wire die 
i n 
there, Т the territori 
nobles on road to Guildford, which he shortly 
June follow- 
ceeding days 
of Reigate, Guildford, and Farnha 
But there is а charter to d Ay of Walden 
dated d. Guildford by King. Busen; in - so 
conjectured that the monarch st have 
ê Castle. the 6 
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