I AS born, and passed t seven years of my life, in temple. Its cs s gardens, its fountain, its river, I said -- for in t o me but a stream t ered our pleasant places? -- t recollections. I repeat, to to myself more frequently, or ion, t.
towers,
th ride,
udious lawyers heir bowers,
t templer knigo bide,
till through pride.
Indeed, it is t elegant spot in tropolis. a transition for a countryman visiting London for t time -- trand or Fleet-street, by unexpected avenues, into its magnificent ample squares, its classic green recesses! a c portion of it, goodly pile
Of building strong, albeit of Paper ,
confronting, rast, ter, older, more fantastically s, opposite tately stream, scarcely trade-polluted ers, and seems but just e aspect fine Elizabetain plays, o toundment of temporaries, o guess at its recondite mac tempted to an antique air effaced sun-dials, ions, seeming coevals time ake tions of its fligely from ain of ligeal imperceptibly on, co detect its movement, never catc cloud -- or t arrests of sleep!
A doty like a dial-hand
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived!
a dead ts ponderous embos of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dulness of communication, compared ar-like structure, and silent -language of t stood as tian gardens. almost every e inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, migs continuance. It spoke of moderate labours, of pleasures not protracted after sun-set, of temperance, and good- ive clock, t e for s plants and floo spring by, for to apportion to pasture and be led to fold by. t;carved it out quaintly in t; and, turning pion, provided it tos more toucombstones. It ty device of tificial gardening, made a dial out of quote tle ry ty delicacy. t come in aains and sun-dials. garden scenes:
his I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head.
ters of the vine
Upon my moutheir wine.
tarine, and curious peach,
Into my hemselves do reach.
Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
Insnared h flowers, I fall on grass.
Meanwhe mind from pleasure less
ito its happiness.
t ocean, where each kind
Does straigs own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other seas;
Anniing all ts made
to a green t in a green shade.
tains sliding foot,
Or at some fruit-trees mossy root,
Casting t aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide:
t sits and sings,
ts and claps its silver wings;
And, till prepared for longer flight,
aves in its plumes t.
he skilful gardner drew,
Of flowers and his dial new!
he milder sun
Does t zodiac run:
And, as it rious bee
Computes its time as well as we.
and wholesome hours
Be reckond, but h herbs and flowers?
[Footnote] * from a copy of verses entitled quot;t;
tificial fountains of tropolis are, in like manner, fast vanis of t, little green nook be a fres gives to ttle o play ting out ever fresreams from t-on lips, in tell me, is gone by, and teemed c tify cting tand? La least. every t in t and t some of t left, to respond to its earliest encments? tesque. Are tiff- still flitter and cter about t area, less gotter of t roric one as ttle cool playful streams ttered?
tely gotrance to temple-, to assimilate to t at all resemble. is become of t stood over tately arms! and of allegory! t account to me for tly.
terrace is, indeed, left, traces are passed asteps a is become common and profane. t almost sacred to t of t least. t not be sided or jostled. ted t you, o be delivered of a jest, almost invites a stranger to vie a repartee . But familiar durst ed try ? -- ory and patible from er of equals and superiors, atory notes being, indeed, of all, t repulsive and ing tural terrors of ic nostril, darkening took it, not by pinc a palmful at once, diving for it under ty flaps of coat pocket; coat red and angry, dark rappee, tinctured by dye original, and by adjuncts, tons of a obsolete gold. And so errace.
By imes to be seen; tility of Samuel Salt. t t and tics Salt auncory. Many a sarcastic groter cast out -- for Coventry tical confederates of e, ter like cannon-balls from ruffle Samuel Salt.
S. ation of being a very clever man, and of excellent discernment in tice of t amount to muc disposition of money, testamentary or ot over ructions to tle felloc out of of natural understanding, of e for talents S. enjoyed by trick of gravity. pose e -- indolent and procrastinating to t degree. Yet men application in spite of to be trusted y. y but of o do it. o dine at a relatives of tunate Miss Blandy on tion ; -- and L. , sc anxiety not in any possible manner to allude to ory t day. S. promised faito observe tion. been seated in ting tes, of ;it ; and added, quot;Miss Blandy must be ime, I suppose.quot; Instances of t ual. Yet S. by some of test men of ime a fit person to be consulted, not alone in matters pertaining to t in ties and embarrassments of conduct -- from force of manner entirely. une among toast o rifled or talked gallantry tentions. ed met, t t sage to tre. -- Not so, t Susan P----; y, ime, unaccompanied, ting t of B----d Roears t fell in drops y years -- a passion, inguise; nor t gently enforced, puttings off of unrelenting bacs c nohy friend in heaven!
try of t name. racted circumstances, time I knes-inn, Fleet-street. J., t, for , at t at Nort above a day or t a time in t preferred, during t montanding at o c;ter all day long.quot; I suspect arma fuere. treasures more safe. of a strong box. C. upon a cer, certain admirable points of steadiness and unity of purpose. One may e a true miser, but cannot, I suspect, so easily despise aking care of ten enabled to part leaves us careless generous fello an immeasurable distance be once in ime to a blind cy. er, but table of a gentleman. out of co freeze.
Salt a competency for s tle calculated to improve, mig people about ook care of every t once , ;flapper,quot; op-cor, treasurer. consulting Lovel, or failed in any t expecting and fearing too muc been t in title almost to respect as a master, if L. could ever ten for a moment t .
I kney A good fello;rike.quot; In ties, or calculated ts. ed a s of ty t of it. t to a female -- an occasion upon erference of Lovel. and next day bare-o tly to excuse erference -- for L. never forgot rank, concerned. L. little felloly to resemble (I rait of ), possessed a fine turn for ry -- next to S and Prior ---- moulded er of Paris to admiration, by t of natural genius merely; turned cribbage boards, and suc toys, to perfection; took a quadrille or boy; made puncter t quips and conceits, and ogetions as you could desire. sucy, companion as Mr. Isaac alton ten, in t sad stage of ;a remnant most forlorn of even t up upon tion of e Garrick. est, ;age nearly t t; At intervals, too, tle boy from Lincoln to go to service, and parting urned, after some feo see t to believe t it ;; And tement subsiding, ill I sad second-c ill to lay its time after received ly into hers.
itry, and , in terrace, most commonly Peter Pierson o make up a t ;as noout triumvirs sreets,quot; -- but general ate, or least be, but not a prepossessing mad. in term un raty of being o
of our great p. I kno s, but I could never make out subordinate, on -- anoty -- ation, I try -- tained not to ty of otype. Nevertty rengtolerable antiquarian, and of reasurerso be audited, t;Item, disbursed Mr. Allen, ty suff to poison t; next to on -- a jolly negation, ion rooms at college -- muco t of ous in jests upon . tenuated and fleeting. Many must remember er date) and , eps and a jump regularly succeeding. teps tle efforts, like t of a co ively vigorous, as a foot to an inc occasioned it, I could never discover. It self, nor seemed to anster treme tenuity of , set . It rial of poising. ten rally y; but . ures eful. I s ears extremely, ion of possessing more multifarious knoime. erate portion of temple. I remember a pleasant passage, of to y of apology, or instructions o e doo be -- as I -- fortifying y omical reasons as dismissed time) learned and yet perversely, aitcs s of te so denominated. I forgotten Mingay later. , and supplied it olerable adroitness. I detected titute, before I ificial or not. I remember tonis it raised in me. ering, loudtalking person; and I reconciled to my ideas as an emblem of poill very lately) in tume of t recollections of temple. Fantastic forms, ood appearances, ear aernatural mist, brig ension, o my cemple? In t;old men covered le,quot; try perisinct be trumpery of legendary fabling,in t of c or ion -- tion al -- from every-day forms educing t little Gos, eriality. , imagination s otally to fly th.
P.S. I ice to t s. See is to trust to imperfect memory, and tices of c I protest I al t leman, R. N. informs me, married young, and losing year of to a deep melancs of by a gentler name!) of mild Susan P----, unravelling into beauty certain peculiarities of tiring cer -- no one receive tives of Elia for true records! trut s -- verisimilitudes, not verities -- or sitting but upon te edges and outskirts of ory. cter pero ed t gentleman, before te reminiscences to press. But treasurer -- ties of Elia. ts not, peradventure, of t in tence beyond tleman`s -- monture o t Urbans obituary. May it be long before o stery! -- Meantime, O ye Neake in green and vigorous senility -- make allo quot;ye yourselves are old.quot; So may t badge and cognisance, still flourisure rate your c of more melodious quiristers, unpoisoned your ately gardens, drop tiest blussy as ye pass, reductive of juvenescent emotion! so may tion eye you, pacing your stately terrace, itious veneration, solemnized the parade before ye!