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Excerpt from The Literary Miscellany, or Selections and Extracts, Classical and Scientific, Vol. 15: With Originals, in Prose and Verse; Amatory; Viz; Letters of Werter, Letters of Yorick and Eliza, Elegies by Hammond, &C., &C
Past sorrows, greatly adds to the number of the wretched. I am exceedingly well pleased with my situation here. Solitude, by the truly wise, has ever been courted, and in this terrestrial para dise 't is a medicine to my mind. The delight of Spring touches my heart, and gives fresh vigour to my soul. All nature rejoices and every field looks gay. Every tree, every bush is full of ?owers, and a delicious perfume fills the air. The little tenants of the woods renew their matin songs, and, in the evening, Philomela devotes a requiem to departing' day. What a contrast between the country and the town! The city affords me no pleasure; and yet the finest kind of country, and the greatest natural beau ties, are in it's environs. Upon one ofthe neighbouring hills, which is a link of that chain which diversifies our landscape, the late Marquis of Mahley made a gar den. It is laid out in that style of simplicity; which plainly demonstrates that the professional skill of the gardener has been corrected by the native taste of a man of feeling and genius, more attentive to his own enjoyment than to rules of art. I have given some tears to the memory of it's departed possessor, upon a tomb, in an arbour that is now almost in ruins. This was the favourite retreat of his leisure hours, and is now become mine. I hope soon to have entire possession ofthis spot. I have secured the gardener in my interest, and shall be careful not to lose his fa vour while I have the means of preserving it.
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