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imagination, copiousness of diction, beauty and

mony of versification, the volume is imbued
with a depth of thought, and a strength of
feeling, which indicate a mind of a very supe-
rior order, a mind capable of producing "what
the world will not willingly let die."

The volume opens with an "Invocation."
It is a noble and enthusiastic little composition;
and as it affords a fair specimen of Mrs. God.
win's powers, we will give nearly the whole
of it.

"Beautiful Spirit! that didst guard of eld
The song-inspiring fount of Castalie-
Thou, unto whom supremacy is given
And sway o'er realms of boundless intellect;
Light of the lonely, solace of the sage,
Beneath whose influence e'en the dungeon smiles,
And earth's worst desert fair as Eden blooms;-
To whom are offered pure the unchained thoughts,
Warm aspirations, and the rare first-fruits
Born of young Genius, when her spring-tide teems
With rich imaginings-To whom belongs
The glorious harvest of maturer years;
Enchantress! at whose magic touch the mines
Where Mem'ry keeps her deathless stores, fling wide
Their golden gates, and all their wealth disclose-
Call, from the depths of ocean and of earth,
And from the blue ethereal element,
Enchantress Queen! call up thy mighty spells!
If on some silver-crested wave thou float'st,
List'ning the genii secrets murmured low
Beneath the surges;-or if yet thou hold'st
Thy moonlight vigils midst the laurel groves
Girding the Delphian mount;-or if on wing,
All redolent of heaven's immortal breeze,
And radiant as the Iris' hues, thou glidest
Among the stars, winning new splendour thence,-
Or heavenward, earthward bent, my vows receive.
Spirit! that deign'st to hover o'er my path,
When in the twilight gleam of some deep dell,
Or Naïad-haunted spring, I wander forth
To hold communion with the peering stars;
Or on the voiceful shore I pause, to view
The round moon fling her bright reflection far
Upon the crystal waves; or clambering thence
Along the rock-goat's steep and dangerous way,
Where toppling crags hang o'er the billowy main
Their fortress rude, I mark the sun descend
From his cloud-canopied Olympian throne,
His regal brow all filleted with fire;
Spirit presiding then-pervading all-
Seen in the sunset-breathed in all the airs
That wanton through the summer-tinted groves;
Felt in the balmy influence of those tears
Wept by the heavens o'er Day's deserted fanes;
Spirit of Poesie! on thee I call."

The Wanderer's Legacy; a Collection of variety of imagery, and rare facility and har-
Poems, on various Subjects. By Catharine
Grace Godwin, late Catharine Grace Garnett.
Post 8vo. pp. 277. London, 1828. Maun-
der.
THE readers of the Literary Gazette must well
recollect the elegant little productions of Mrs.
Godwin's pen, which have occasionally graced
our "Poet's Corner." This lady is, we un-
derstand, the younger daughter of the late Dr.
-Garnett, the author of "Zoonomia," "Obser-
vations on a Tour through the Highlands of
- Scotland," &c. At the period of the foundation
of the Royal Institution, Dr. Garnett, who had
been educated first under the celebrated Daw-
son of Sedbergh, and afterwards at the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh, was professor of physics
and philosophy at Anderson's Institution, in
Glasgow. Such were his scientific attainments,
and such was his reputation, that, without the
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of the Royal Institution selected him to be the
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since been divided among several able and
accomplished persons. For two or three years
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situation highly to the satisfaction of his
numerous and fashionably-attended classes;
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the unjust and presuming conduct of one of
the leading governors of the institution (now
no more), at length induced him to resign a
post, which, advantageous as it was in a
worldly point of view, he could not retain
without a compromise of self-esteem.
then commenced practice in London as a phy-
sician; and his knowledge and skill, united
with the amiableness of his character, and the
singular frankness and simplicity of his man-
ners, were rapidly introducing him into an
extensive and lucrative connexion; when, in the
prime of life, he fell a victim to his benevolence,
in attending a poor family attacked by typhus
fever. Dr. Garnett left two orphan children,
for Mrs. Garnett had died a few years before.
They were intrusted to the care of a kind and
attached female friend, who retired with them
to their father's native place, Barbon, a
secluded little village, near Kirby-Lonsdale, in
Westmoreland. In this village they both con-
tinued to reside until they had attained to
womanhood, and it is still the home of Mrs.
Godwin. It is not surprising that in so beau-
tiful and romantic a country, and surrounded
by every circumstance calculated to operate
powerfully upon the youthful fancy, the germ
of poetical genius, which disclosed itself early
in the life of the fair author of the poems
now under our notice, should have gradually
expanded, until it arrived at a rich and luxuri.
ant maturity. Of her first publication, “The
Night before the Bridal, Sappho, and other
Poems," we spoke, soon after its appearance,
with the praise which it deserved. Her
present work raises Mrs. Godwin still more in

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If this is not very exquisite poetry, we ac-
knowledge that we do not know what is.
The Wanderer's Legacy" thus sweetly com-

mences:

"The sun was setting o'er the mountain range

That guards thy glens, romantic Borrodale;
O'er day's deep azure came a wondrous change
Wherein all hues of splendour did prevail,
From the rich ruby to the topaz pale;
And one cloud floating on the eastern air,

With golden prow and amethystine sail,
Shew'd like a ship of heaven bound onward, where
Flamed the broad west beneath the sunset glare.
Twilight fell o'er the deep autumnal woods,

Veiling their tints in eve's mysterious gray,
Twilight was on wild crags and mountain floods,
Save where some torrent flung its silver spray
Bright in the beam of the retiring day.
The pastoral hamlet slept in calm repose,
With cottage, byre, and farm-yards' neat array,
And neighbouring kirk, whose vesper chime arose
Soft on the breath of evening's quiet close.
And other sounds were heard commingling sweet;
Wild brook that tinkled down the mossy dell,
Call of returning kine, or fitful bleat

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Or, nearer home, the red-breast's mellow note,
Piping to eve his eloquent farewell;

Or voice of infant mirth, while young hands float
Down the clear stream their fairy acorn-boat."
To this romantic scene, the home of his
youthful days," a gray-haired wanderer,”.

"a toil-worn, venerable man,

In humble guise, although of travelled mien, With meditative brow, and visage wan,

In whose deep eye immortal thoughts were seen,"

returns. His reflections, as he gazes at the
well-known objects around him, are full of
beauty, and of patriotic feeling.

"Land of my sires! oh, with what chasten'd love
My soul, unwarp'd, dispassionate, and free,
Guided by some kind angel from above,
Returns with filial gratitude to thee!
Here would I wait my Maker's great decree—
Walk these wild hills whereon my fathers trod,
And, as the leaf beside the parent tree
Lays its pale form, so nigh yon house of God
Would I repose beneath the hallow'd sod.
And well may life moor here her shatter'd bark,
From hence she sail'd when youth was at the prow;
The dove sought shelter in the sacred Ark,

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Scared by the perils she had view'd below.
Within these glens the citron's golden glow
Crests not the grove by southern breezes f
Yet would I challenge earth's wide reah
A spot that bears the stamp of Beauty's hand
More deep than thine, my own, my native land!}
And thou art free-the gilded orient wave,

Albeit perfumed by India's spicy gates,
Floats round the country of the crouching slave,
Where rapine prowls, and tyranny prevails:
But here, in Albion's green and peaceful vales,
Man with his fellow mortal proudly copes;

No despot's will the peasant's home assails,
Nor stalks th' oppressor o'er its pastoral slopes,
Nor reaps the stranger's hand the harvest of his hopes."
Finding that the lapse of years has deprived
him of all his kindred and friends, he

a peaceful hermitage, where he passes
"the quiet autumn of his age

res to

In such pursuits as whiled the hours away:
From Wanderer grown to Anchorite and Sage;
A moonlight eve closed manhood's chequer'd day."
In his cell, after his death, are discovered his
tablets, on which are inscribed "The Wan.
derer's early Recollections;" forming the third
and longest poem of the volume. The earlier
portion of these Recollections, is the admirably
detailed history of an ardent but uninformed
mind, conscious of the existence of unattained
knowledge, and panting for its acquisition.
We can quote only a few short and detached
passages.

"My youth hath been in quiet musings spent,
My very childhood garb'd itself in thoughts.
That were of riper years. My whole life since
Hath been a maze of marvel, and delight
In all the gifts wherewith the hand divine"
Hath deck'd this mortal dwelling-place of man.
I well remember me, ere language flow'd
In unison with the mind's eloquence,
How my heart, labouring with its feelings deep,
Seeking in words some utterance of its joy,
Rejected alway with a vexed disdain
The guise uncouth in which the precious ore
Was issued from the mine; for harmony,
Though unattained, was in my heart instinct:
I felt her presence in the haunts I loved--
She floated round me in the summer's gales;
I saw her impress on the mountain peaks;
The groves, the glades, with her voice resonant,
Whispered her accents to the murmuring brooks.
The poetry of Nature then was felt,
Albeft not yet distinctly understood.

I only knew that my aspirings soar'd

Far, far above this earth's corporeal things:
That my conceptions were beyond the scope
Of my untaught and wild philosophy.

All, all was mystery,-mine own sense of being-
The restless, the resistless tide of thought

Athwart my path a ray of sunlight fell.
Imagination, that in guise untrick'd
By cunning arts of the world's fashioning,
Had been the mistress of my constant love,
E'en from those boyish days when first I woo'd
With rustic boldness her capricious smiles
Upon the summer hills,-came to me now,
Decked in the gorgeous thoughts and stately rhymes
Of England's gifted bards; to whose sweet songs
My mind, affrighted at severer lore,

Had haply then almost unwitting turn'd.

A spell came o'er me when those tomes I oped;
Mine own wild visions, all depicted clear,
I recognised through every line dispread,
Clad in the measure of harmonious verse,
And flowing on in cadence musical,
Adapted skilfully in frequent change,
Yet with strict unity symphonious still
To each new-born emotion of the soul.
These, for the first time, opening on my sense,
Seem'd the soft language of a lovelier world.

When spake from out the brown autumnal woods
The solemn voice of the expiring year,

Calling on man his spirit to attune

To the calm cadence of her parting hymn;
When the sere-leaf by equinoctial gales
Was wafted with a sound scarce audible

To the lone harbour of some sheltering nook;
When summer brooks, swollen by the latter rains,
Did gush forth with a fuller melody;
When all day long upon the mountain peaks
The fleecy clouds in denser wreaths reposed,
And all around, tinctur'd with graver hues,
The sober livery of the season shew'd ;—
Then would my heart its deepest sense confess
Of thy immortal verse, O bard inspired!
Whose holy harpings waked the wondrous song
Of Eden's fair, but sin-polluted, bowers.
The majesty of Nature, veiled in gloom,
The melancholy light of her last smiles-
All emblematic of departed joy,

My mind with kindred pensiveness imbued.
In the first blush of renovated bloom
Worn by awakening spring, when bees of flowers
Grow amorous, and insect myriads sport
All the long day on the elastic air;

When birds pour forth their choral songs, and scarce
Relax from their sweet toil through the brief hours
Of night's diminish'd sway; when from the depths
Of heaven's clear azure, the young moon of May
Through the green glades a glancing love-light sends,
Undimm'd, save that some gauzy cloud may float
Like sail of fairy bark athwart her track;
When o'er the earth a great enchanter rules,
Joying in nature's metamorphosis,

The visible working of his viewless wand,
That well in times of eld might be ascribed
To power of fay benign or genius good-
In that sweet time, the blythest of the year,
The heart of man, attemper'd to glad thoughts,
Feels all its pulses beat in unison

With life's reviving call: then would my mind,
Abandon'd to the passionate romance
Of the soft season, yield its senses up
To the illusions of the poet's dream;
Wander with fair Titania o'er the meads,
And through the moon-lit forests resonant
With laugh of mischief-loving elves; no maze,
Howe'er fantastic, by thy spells conjur'd,
Magician great of Avon's gentle shores!
Fail'd to ensnare the homage of my heart-
The humblest mite of all the grateful praise
Admiring ages shall to thee accord

For a rich banquet stored with rarest cates
Which thy unrivall'd genius hath dispread.

Nor let me here withhold thy due award,
O courtly minstrel! whose kind Fairy Queen
Led my entranced steps through many a bower
And sylvan haunt so wondrously bedight,
None but a poet's eye might image it;
Nor could the splendid hues wherein all things
Were steep'd thy fertile fancy did create,
Have flow'd from aught but an inspired source.
I love the graceful chivalry that hath garb'd
Woman's fair form in attributes so bright,
She may be placed in man's adoring mind,
Upon a pedestal, his baser thoughts
Dare not profane. Mine ear receives
The stately measure of those antique rhymes
With a most deep delight. Whenever I
Do syllable in memory's trance thy verse,
It seems to me as if a thousand lutes

Of fairy sweetness, touch'd by hands unseen,
With melody filled all the air around;
Or that I heard some river lapse away
In liquid music o'er Arcadian plains."

The latter part of the Recollections exhibits equal poetical power; but we own that

we do not think the subject, the caprice of Hugh Glass being esteemed as among the most
a heartless coquette, and its effects on her unerring, he was on one occasion detached for
lover, deserves the talent bestowed upon it. supplies. He was a short distance in advance
Materiem superabat opus.
of the party, and forcing his way through a
The next poem, "The Seal Hunters," cre- thicket, when a white bear, that had imbedded
ates a striking and delightful diversity. Mrs. herself in the sand, arose within three yards of
Godwin paints the rigours of the polar regions him; and before he could set his triggers,'
with a masterly pencil. One would think she or turn to retreat, he was seized by the throat
had accompanied Captain Parry in his north-and raised from the ground: casting him again
ern expeditions. Hark! the very verse rattles upon the earth, his grim adversary tore out a
away like a shower of hail.

"Loud howl'd the wind on Finland's shore:
High rose the hoarse and sullen roar
Of forests, whose continuous line
Of gnarled oak and giant pine,

Clothed mountain, valley, plain.
Dark cliffs that beetled o'er the deep,
Guarding the ocean's spell-bound sleep,
Rear'd up their dusk, mysterious forms,
And look'd the genii of the storms,
Ruling the drear domain.

And, bursting from its icy thrall,
Down dash'd the cataract's thundering fall,
Midst cavern'd rocks, whose depths are known
But to the eddying waves alone,

In their remotest bound.

No gleam illumed the sunless air;
Huge clouds, that sail'd stupendous there,
Successively gaunt shadows threw
On ocean's cold and rigid blue;

Deep twilight reign'd around.
Further than human eye could reach,
Came floating tow'rds that stormy beach
Ice-shoals, and islets rude,
Whose frost-built valleys image forth
The gloomy horrors of the North
In all their amplitude.

mouthful of the cannibal food which had ex cited her appetite, and retired to submit the sample to her yearling cubs, which were near at hand. The sufferer now made an effort to escape, but the bear immediately returned with a re-inforcement, and seized him by the shoul. der: she also lacerated his arm very much, and inflicted a severe wound on the back of his head. In this second attack the cubs were prevented from participating, by one of the party who had rushed forward to the relief of his comrade. One of the cubs, however, forced the new-comer to retreat into the river, where, standing to the middle in the water, he gave his foe a mortal shot, or, to use his own lan'I burst the varment.' Meantime the guage, main body of trappers having arrived, ad. vanced to the relief of Glass, and delivered seven or eight shots, so well directed as to terminate hostilities, by despatching the bear as she stood over her bleeding victim. Glass was thus providentially snatched from the grasp of the ferocious animal; yet his condition was far from being enviable: he had received several dangerous wounds, his whole body was bruised and mangled, and he lay weltering in This fine commencement is as finely followed his blood, in exquisite torment. To procure up. The adventures of two young and gallant and to remove the sufferer was equally so: the surgical aid, now so desirable, was impossible; Finlanders, their voyage through the stormy Arctic Sea, their disembarkation (we had nearly safety of the whole party, being now in the said landing) on an iceberg, the drifting and country of hostile Indians, depended on the destruction of their frail boat, their suffering lacerated and scarcely breathing. Glass seemed celerity of their movements. To remove the and despair, and their ultimate deliverance, certain death to him to the rest of the party are told with a truth, a pathos, and an energy, such a measure would have been fraught which will greatly surprise as well as gratify with danger

Tall towering peaks, that wore the dyes
Of those severe but glorious skies,
Like infant Alps or Andes rose
Serene though stern in their repose;
Till from the ice of ages rent,
By ocean's unchain'd element,
Chaotic on their course they're hurl'd,
Like monsters of an earlier world."

the reader.

We must postpone any further description
of this highly interesting volume; but if we
can (having borrowed from it a space for the
recollection of Dr. Garnett), we will, perhaps,
allow it a sequel notice.

Letters from the West: containing Sketches of
Scenery, Manners, and Customs; and Anec-
dotes connected with the first Settlements of
the Western Sections of the United States.
By the Hon. Judge Hall. 8vo. pp. 385.
London, 1828. Colburn.

Under these circumstances,

Major Henry, by offering an extravagant re with the wounded man until he should ex. ward, induced two of his party to remain pire, or recover sufficient strength to bear removal to some of the trading establishments in that country. They remained with their to be no longer possible, they cruelly abandoned patient five days, when, supposing his recovery him, taking with them his rifle, shot-pouch, and all appliances, leaving him no means of making fire or procuring food. These unprincipled wretches proceeded on the trail of their employer; and when they overtook him, reANOTHER American overflow of conceit. We ported that Glass had died of his wounds, and have no doubt the Americans are what they that they had interred him in the best manner proclaim a new-world people, of a superior possible. They produced his effects in conorder, and all that; but we quarrel with their firmation of their assertions, and readily obtaste for so loudly and so eternally proclaiming tained credence. But poor Glass was not a their own merits. It is young! Little boys slovenly, unhandsome corpse;' nor was he wil and girls do the same; not grown-up, and stout ling to yield without a struggle to the grim bodily and mental people. Perhaps, however, king of terrors. Retaining a slight hold upon it is scarcely fair to form an opinion of a peo-life, when he found himself abandoned, he ple from a work like that before us,-flippant, crawled with great difficulty to a spring, which full of quotations from songs as an Irish speech, and also evidently written but for one side of the Atlantic. Our only extract will be a short narrative the wonderful escape of a trapper.

was within a few yards. Here he laid ten days subsisting upon cherries that hung over the spring, and grains des bœufs, or buffaloe-berries, which were within his reach. Acquiring by slow degrees a little strength, he now set "As these adventurers usually draw their off for Fort Kiawa, a trading post, on the food as well as their raiment from nature's Missouri river, about three hundred and fifty spacious warehouse, it is customary for one or miles distant. It required no ordinary degree two hunters to precede the party in search of of fortitude to crawl to the end of such a game, that the whole may not be forced at journey, through a hostile country, without night to lie down supperless. The rifle of fire-arms, with scarcely strength to drag one

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limb after another, and with almost no other buttery. King Henry the Seventh, who re- portions as towards the west; and at the subsistence than wild berries. He had, how-sided much at Eltham, and, as appears by a distance of twenty feet there is another tower, ever, the good fortune one day to be in at record in the Office of Arms, most commonly of nearly equal size, between which and the the death of a buffaloe calf,' which was over- dined in the great hall, rebuilt the front of the bridge, the wall is levelled to the foundation. taken and slain by a pack of wolves. He per- palace next the moat, that is, the west, or I have before observed, that the old plan demitted the assailants to carry on the war, until principal front, which extended full three hun-notes no buildings on the south side, but at no signs of life remained in their victim, and dred and eighty feet; and havoc rested from the extreme angle next the west it defines a then interfered and took possession of the its unworthy toils before it had exterminated cluster prominent enough to stretch nearly 'fatted calf; but as he had no means of all traces of the Tudor building therein referred across the moat. These are described as the striking fire, we may infer that he did not to. Eltham Palace exhibited the same partial, lodgings of the lord chancellor. make a very prodigal use of the veal thus though not inconsiderable, re-edification which no fragments of walls to determine the extent obtained. With indefatigable industry, he very few mansions of remote antiquity escaped. of the south front from the west angle, but continued to crawl until he reached Fort The spirit of improvement often, and not un- the vaults which still remain under-ground, if Kiawa." frequently the love of variety, influenced these not capacious drains, were used for cellars, Were we inclined to censure, censure would changes; and the taste with which they were and have had buildings over them. But these be of little moment to our author: we will sometimes made, may, without presumption, subterranean rooms are not now so easy of conclude with his estimate of fame:" You be questioned, especially where we observe the access as they were formerly; one has been will remind me, I dare say, of posterity; but, mutilation of an elegant feature for the accom-partly, and several entirely, closed up. Two in the language of a merry neighbour of mine, modation of one destitute of merit as a speci- on the west side still remain open, and one I reply, Hang posterity! what did posterity men of architecture, and of propriety on the towards the south, originally sixty feet long, ever do for me!' So I shall write when I score of convenience. How far Eltham Palace is now a convenient receptacle for garden implease, and court the girls when I can." Vul- warranted these observations, must remain plements. All these vaults, excepting the last, garity can hardly go further. doubtful; but, referring to the alterations are about three feet wide, and six feet high to which in former times were made in ancient the crown of the arch. The principal one, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the buildings, I may remark, that the hall more facing the west, extends fifty feet under Royal Palace of Eltham. By John Chessell commonly retained its original character than ground; but the one adjoining, and that Buckler. 8vo. pp. 108. London, 1828. any other part of the mansion. This might towards the south, merit description. The Nichols and Son. have been on account of its dimensions, which former extends twenty-five feet from the enWE are much pleased with the manner in were always ample; and where no improvement trance, and consists of three members, altowhich Mr. Buckler has completed a task of no in convenience could be made, none was de-gether resembling the Roman I. The middle trifling difficulty. Not only has he performed sired, if attainable, in the architecture. Cer-space measures ten feet four inches by four all he professed to do, but something more: tainly no improvement in this respect would feet. The outer division contains the stairfor his little volume contains an essay on En- have followed an alteration of the hall at El-case, which formerly communicated with the glish architecture, of considerable interest. The tham. Henry the Seventh could not have pro-apartments above; and the inner, a deeply character of the work will be best exemplified duced in its stead a building with excellencies recessed arch, between which and the vault is by quoting the author's own words. Of Eltham of so high an order as were commanded by an aperture in the roof twenty-four inches by Mr. Buckler says:-Edward the Fourth. If talent had not greatly twenty, framed with stone, and doubtless once "In the design of this palace was observed diminished, the style of architecture on which concealed by a trap-door. The door of the the rule of limiting the elevation to two sto- it was exercised claimed merit rather for the latter, or south vault, appears between the ries; and there are not many examples of a profusion and delicacy of its ornaments, than towers before noticed, and its course is sinthird range of apartments below the roof. The for the boldness and beauty of its proportions." gularly irregular, varying in width from four lower floor sometimes comprised the hall, Again: "King Henry the Seventh's build- to six feet, four feet three inches, and four which, in this case, admitted of no particular ing, which the record calls handsome,' doubt-feet nine inches. In the left or west wall is distinction; for example: the halls of the an- less partook of the character which distin- an arched recess, five feet wide, and four deep; cient mansions at Congresbury in Somerset-guished the best designs of that and the and further on, a small recess or niche. But shire, and Aishbury in Berkshire. At Meth- succeeding reign, so celebrated for their ge- a square aperture in the roof near the outer ley, the seat of the Earl of Mexborough, in nerous encouragement of architecture. The doorway is the object of primary interest. It addition to the lofty hall, appears a story with same spirit which guided Edward the Fourth is neatly formed, and large enough to admit handsome bow-windows; but it is to be ob- in the building of his palace, seems to have the passage of an individual, and seems to served, that this singular arrangement has oc- descended without diminution to his royal justify the vulgar tales of adventures by means casioned an unusual height of building, and successor. Angular or circular bay-windows, of secret passages, which attach to this and that no part of the hall, excepting the porch variously olustered, are the predominant fea- many other celebrated old houses. and arches within, are prior to the age of Eli-tures. The specimen adjoining Queen Eli- "The beauty of Henry the Seventh's buildzabeth. In buildings of great or small extent, zabeth's gallery in Windsor Castle, is of un-ing towards the west might occasion no regret this judicious rule was strictly followed, and rivalled magnificence, and the forms there at the change which that sovereign made in Lord Burlington has proved, in another style observable have been adopted on the sides of the architecture of his palace at Eltham; but of architecture, that grandeur of design is not Henry the Seventh's Chapel. Wolsey has with wood and plaster it was not possible to incompatible with an elevation comprising only preserved the same rich and elegant character excel the general character here given, that of two ranges of apartments. The distance be- in the great west gateway of his college in the commonest domestic style, though it aptween the hall and the wall washed by the Oxford; and the Duke of Buckingham also peared with the enrichments of older architecmoat on the west side, is sixty feet; and it combined the forms alluded to in two superb ture. This fragment of the building, dividing will be observed, that though throughout the bay-windows, each comprehending two stories, the area from east to west, stands between the western boundary the very ancient stone base- in the splendid south front of his castle at hall and the eastern boundary, twelve yards ment remains, yet, from the level of the en- Thornbury. That windows of the kind here apart from the former, and nearly the same closed ground, the superstructures of both ex-described, and of which I have enumerated distance from the latter, which space is now tremes have been rebuilt of brick; but not so several of the grandest specimens now re- covered with sheds and outhouses, on the founthe middle space, consisting of about one third maining, once distinguished the western fa-dations of rooms connected with the kitchens, the whole extent: hence there is reason to qade of Eltham Palace, is more than probable. which occupied a large space on the eastern suppose that, with the great hall, the building The basement of a bay-window, consisting of boundary; the remainder of the side having joined to its western extremity, of stone, of the an oblong square, 12 feet wide, and 4 in had lodging-rooms, which, it appears, went to same age and the same architecture, retained bulk, with a wall of a triangular shape in decay in the next reign. without abatement, till the period of its de- front, is a very interesting relic among these "The hall was the master feature of the struction, its beauty and fair proportions. Two scanty ruins. But this is not a solitary fea- palace. With a suite of rooms at either exbold but imperfect buttresses distinguish the ture; it stands between four other solid tremity, it rose in the centre of the surrounding part of the wall here described; and the care masses, the basements of towers, bay-windows, buildings, as superior in the grandeur of its with which these supports were constructed is or chimney shafts, and assumes the appearance architecture as in the magnificence of its proevident in the excellence of the workmanship of uniformity, though wanting in exactness of portions and the amplitude of its dimensions. and the soundness of the material. The ground dimensions. This range, measuring ninety This fair edifice has survived the shocks which, rooms of this building were occupied for the feet, joins the south angle; on which aspect, at different periods, laid the palace low. Desopastry, the spicery, and my lord chancellor's the extreme tower appears in the same pro-lation has reached its very walls, and the hand

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