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watery plain, and forming an elegant frame to a very excellent
picture. By turning a little to the right, the prospect changes.
At the head of a sloping inclosure, and under the skirts of a
steep wood, a sequestered cottage stands in the nicest point of
beauty.
There is a great variety of pleasing views from the different
meandering walks and seats in the wood: one at the hermitage, and
another at the seat in the bottom of the wood, where Ulverston
and the environs make a pretty picture. From under the shrubbery
(on the eastern side of the house, and from the gate at the north
end of the walk, behind a swell of green hills) if the afternoon
sun shine, the conical summits of distant mountains are seen
glistening like burnished gold, and pointing to the heavens in a
noble style. But as this sweet spot is injured by description, I
shall only add, that it is a great omission in the curious
traveller, to be in Furness and not see so wonderfully pretty
place a place, to which nature has been so profuse in noble
gifts, and where art has lent its best assistance, under the
regulation of an elegant fancy, and a refined taste [1].
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[1]
And where it is not too much to go on in a language of a still
higher kind,-
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain,
Here earth and water seem to strive again;
Not chaos-like, together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd.
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