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rarrOTS of JEtiia , and' must shrink froftr' comparison even with Sjqdctaw and / Ben LpnXond A f when romantic grandeur is the & \ it ) - i ^ t ^^ wpmson j hut the Heath and the hill are iix ) t to be despised Jpr s $ l tj ^ t . And have we no green lanes ; no calm , homely , arid touching beauty in the rural way ? Between
Broihpton— -I own the soft impeachment / I am a Bromptoniari—and BVilham , I will undertake to point out some very unexceptionable scenery ; and Barnes Common , Norwood , Epping Forest , and the road to Harrow , would set up a contributor to our impugners with itnagery for a very pretty poem , dated from Teviotdale , and published itx Edinburgh or Glasgow . Kensington Gardens are very dear to me , alike for their stately trees- and for the far flute-like , ever-flitting note of the cuckoo :
that sweet note which brings back again the rushing and pure g ladness of early boyhood to a heart which time has sorely bruised , Indeed , but has not deprived of all its better and more hallowed Feelings . But the gardens , much as I love them , and willing as Tani ' to do battle in defence of their picturesque character , have
fcf me a something too much of a built-upish air ; a something " which speaks of proprietorship , and reminds you that you are riiralisirig onl y upon sufferance . TiTotjso is it with Hyde Park , very early in the morning . Is it cockney now , and low , to see any rural beauty , or a good
substitute for it in a spot not ten minutes' walk from shops , coachstands , and all the noise and bustle of a busy metropolis ? Be it so : but if any reader , gentle or critical , will walk with me , not &tong Rotten-row and round the Ring , but up to the spring in what is called the Deer Park , ' I will make him confess that it
is hot only those who ' travel from JDan to Beersheba , and cry ** afl is void / 7 ' who are too idle or too supercilious to enrich their ^ tta iii s and gladden their hearts by making a good use of their eyes . ,
Talk of theatres , and of balls , and of exhibitions ! give me Hycte PaTkltery early in the morning , and when the weather is 5 ^ 14 .-enough or * wet enough to allow of my being there alone of human beings ; the deer the while careering before me , and callfrtflMip thoughts of merry Sherwood and of the gay bold outlaws Svndwefe branded as thieves and hunted like wild beasts , because they loathed the Norman ' s tyranny and defied the Norman ' s ** z *\ i f ^ " ¦ ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ . '
'" Bfit $ teft traidiicers may say that I have travelled out of the reto ^ di Mid thit though we unquestionabl y have gVeen pastures , I ^ oa ^ Aell ^ ^ tid shstdy graves , within a few hours * walk df evieh ttife least * aWrt ' of oVt i ^ estricins , We yot 7 it ) , not among th < tffi , : bVft 'Ikk ' tetWKttS ; 'ttWA-tfc ; alleys , square ? , circuses , polygons , par ^ a flotia ^ aud / aU thoootbepforms and denominations of groat , heartmid , ai ^* ifi ^ r ^ id ^ aJ |)|^ dntii )^ « 4 i > asjti 3 ^ f brick and mortar ; It / is but too true that such is the case . But do tibt' ^ ett ttofc' mcail ^ t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 728, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/36/
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