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thickets of the park. Beyond it, in the 

 more distant country, a handsome stone 

 bridge of several arches seen obliquely, 

 crossed the river, and carried the eye to- 

 wards a large city-— 



'* With glittering spires and pinnacles adorn'd." 



" What can you have been doing so long 

 in that hollow way," said Mr f Seymour, as 

 he rose from his seat. ** I did not see any 

 gypsies, asses, or broken panniers ; but 

 now you are come, do tell me if you ever 

 saw any thing half so enchanting as this 

 view, either in nature, or in painting ? I 

 do not know, indeed, whether I ought to 

 call it beautiful, or picturesque; nor do I 

 know whether you connoisseurs, deign to 

 admire, or whether painters deign to re^ 

 present, what the common herd are pleased 

 ; with." 



u You do us and the painters great in- 

 justice," answered Mr. Howard ; " the most 

 celebrated of all the landscape painters, 

 represented such popular scenes as these ; 

 not indeed without making such alterations 

 as his art required, and his experience sug-* 



