I WAS born, and passed the first seven years of my life, iemple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its fountain, its river, I had almost said -- for in those young years, what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places? -- These are of my oldest recolles. I repeat, to this day, no verses to myself more frequently, or with kindlier emotion, than those of Spenser, where he speaks of this spot.
There when they came, whereas those bricky towers,
The whi Themmes brode aged back doth ride,
Where now the studious lawyers have their bowers,
There whylome wont the Templer knights to bide,
Till they decayd through pride.
Indeed, it is the most elegant spot iropolis. What a transition for a tryman visiting London for the first time -- the passing from the crowded Strand or Fleet-street, by ued avenues, into its magnifit ample squares, its classic green recesses! What a cheerful, liberal look hath that portion of it, which, from t……（内容加载失败！）
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