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| of Landscape. - Geologic Sketch of Hagley.—The Road to the Rices—The old Stone-cutter.—Thomson's Hollow.—His visits to Hagley—Shenstone's Urn.—Peculiarities of Taste founded often on a Substratum of Personal Character.—Illustration.—Rousseau.—Pope's Haunt.—Lyttelton's high Admiration of the Genius of Pope.—Description.—Singularly extensive and beautiful Landscape; drawn by Thomson.—Reflection.— Amazing Multiplicity of the Prospect illustrative of a Peculiarity in the Descriptions of the " Seasons."—Addison's Canon on Landscape; corroborated by Shenstone. | 119 | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| Hagley Parish Church.—The Sepulchral Marbles of the Lytteltons.—Epitaph on the Lady Lucy.—The Phrenological Doctrine of Hereditary Transmission; unsupported by History, save in a way in which History can be made to support anything.—Thomas Lord Lyttelton; his Moral Character a strange Contrast to that of his Father.—The Elder Lyttelton; his Death-bed.—Aberrations of the Younger Lord.—Strange Ghost Story; Curious Modes of accounting for it.—Return to Stourbridge.—Late Drive.—Hales Owen | 138 | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| Abbotsford and the Leasowes.—The one place naturally suggestive of the other.—Shenstone.—The Leasowes his most elaborate Composition.—The English Squire and his Mill.—Hales Owen Abbey; interesting, as the Subject of one of Shenstone's larger Poems.—The old anti-Popish Feeling of England well exemplified by the Fact.—Its Origin and History.—Decline.—Infidelity naturally favorable to the Resuscitation and Reproduction of Popery.—The two Naileresses.—Cecilia and Delia.—Skeleton Description of the Leasowes.—Poetic filling up.—The Spinster.—The Fountain | 157 | |
