In The Streets There Reigned
Here, Compared To London, A Pleasing Rural Tranquillity, And I
Breathed A Purer And Fresher Air.
I went now out of the town over a bridge, which lies across the
Thames, and where you pay a penny as often as you pass over it.
The
bridge is lofty and built in the form of an arch, and from it you
enter immediately into a most charming valley, that winds all along
the banks of the Thames.
It was evening. The sun was just shedding her last parting rays on
the valley; but such an evening, and such a valley! Oh, it is
impossible I should ever forget them. The terrace at Richmond does
assuredly afford one of the finest prospects in the world. Whatever
is charming in nature, or pleasing in art, is to be seen here.
Nothing I had ever seen, or ever can see elsewhere, is to be
compared to it. My feelings, during the few short enraptured
minutes that I stood there, it is impossible for any pen to
describe.
One of my first sensations was chagrin and sorrow for the days and
hours I had wasted in London, and I had vented a thousand bitter
reproaches on my irresolution, that I had not long ago quitted that
huge dungeon to come here and pass my time in paradise.
Yes, my friend, whatever be your ideas of paradise, and how
luxuriantly soever it may be depicted to your imagination, I venture
to foretell that here you will be sure to find all those ideas
realised.
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