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    " Squares" or shrubberies , a feature peculiar to Britain , but it lias not got ^ a piazza or ) place , such as the cities of the continent can boast . ' Lacking thi&it lacks one of the finest

    fe&tttres of a great city . And it is not merely as an area for the display of architecture that such a place is wanted ; it is a noble sight in itself . The traveller from the

    open squares of Madnd or Paris ; from the classic , mouldering Eternal City , shrunken within its walls , with the majestic ruins standing in the

    gap ; from its Piazza di Sp&gna , and the striking Sealinata , or the palace-bound expanse of the Piazza Navona ; from the cheerful breadth of

    Santa Maria Maggiore , with its yellow gravel , in Florence the Fair , or the smooth stone floor of the Piazza del Grandticja , * finds himself in London perpetually moving straight forward in a bounded line ; and longs in vain for some

    open space to breathe his eyes in . The nearest approach we have to such a place is in Gray ' s Inn New Square ; but tllfere is a moral monotony of the driest kind in knowing that it is surrounded by

    rid-* In this square , standing in one of the arches of the Loggia , "is Benrenuto Cell 1111 * 3 famous and most graceful statue of Perseus , the foot of which coat , him $ o much pairt and rage in the casting . John of Bologna ' s Rape of the Sabfrte * , in living marble , white as a lily , stands in another : arch ^ with & high relief-on'ite pedestal * . Within the Loggia are ieveral antiques . In the middle of , the epaoe stands a fine fountain / with statues about it . Near it Js an equestrian status of Cosmo the Great , not Unlike the statue of Charles I . in style , but ! much Nobler ; with a bronze inscription ; and three ftigh reliefs of his histoiy on the pedestali At th 0 M fffiP ? ^ JPJ ? ^¦ K Wt ' ¦ H * e g . ^* l ^ ¦ ¦ fei !^ W ^ **• »*) i <**«** " «• Jt Michelangelo and Bandinelli . Ana all these have remained sacred to the Florentines , though trusted to them without ^ uard br' protection , inviolate to hand or foot ; for the inhabitants of Firenzo la Bella have learnt respect from their familiarity with the precious monuments of art *

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    thing bufr lawyers , and th ^ unornate uniformity of $ he | r dweliiiigs . it'i ^ -p ^ id ^ ^ p thoroughfare for cjarriag ^ i atill lies , out 6 f tKe way ' foV tfe majoirity of f ^ t-pa ^ seiigei « The sathe reriiarks apj ^^ to the open space in the jTemjile . The space in front 6 $

    W&afcmmster Hall is tin ^ vin ( neglected , and choked ^ jrp with cabs and coachfesf , ancl more like a bit of . W $ t $ ground . ^

    Now there is Twifelgatr Square not yet enclosed ;[ itis in a central part , and commuhicjites with matiy streeis ; and what could be better tliah

    to make it supply th ^< chief defect remaining ii ^ thie elements of a great city ? Thfere is to be a fountain . Gopdt ; a fountain is ai handsome obj ec t . But let it be of a good design , and copiotis in its

    streams ; not like the miserable little squirtinjg things occasionally found in , the obscure recesses of London . Let it be a noble building : of

    moving waters , fit to stand in such a place , and subserye to the commemoration of Britain's power and one of her greatest heroes . But above all , let ttiie place be kej 31 open ; a shiruti-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/17/