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Reader! are you going out of town "_in search of the picturesque_"--if so, bend your course to the classic, the consecrated ground of HAGLEY! think of LYTTLETON, POPE, SHENSTONE, and THOMSON, or refresh your memory from the "_Spring_" of the latter, as--
Reader! are you going out of town "_in search of the picturesque_"--if so, bend your course to the classic, the consecrated ground of HAGLEY! think of LYTTLETON, POPE, SHENSTONE...
2. Chapter 2Passing over Holbein, Sir Antonio Moore, Vandyke, Lely, Kneller, and Thornhill, we come to the lives of Hogarth--Wilson--Reynolds and Gainsborough--from which we select a few ch...
3. Chapter 3The delighted Turk very politely answered this remarkable _billet doux_, assuring the fair writer that he was at her service, and that he would implicitly follow her directions...
4. Chapter 4A family set forth from Aquitaine to visit the shrine of St. James, at Compostella, whither, according to the Catholic faith, the decapitated body of that saint was conveyed fro...