excerpt from 'Letter from Anna Seward to Rev. Henry White, 7 September 1795' pp. 100, 102 (159 words)
excerpt from 'Letter from Anna Seward to Rev. Henry White, 7 September 1795' pp. 100, 102 (159 words)
| part of | Letter from Anna Seward to Rev. Henry White, 7 September 1795 |
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A large Eolian harp is fixed in one of the windows, and, when the weather permits them to be opened, it breathes its deep tones to the gale, swelling and softening as that rises and falls. […] It has a fine effect to enter the little Gothic library, as I first entered it at the dusk hour. The prismatic lantern diffused a light gloomily glaring. It was assisted by the paler flames of the petit lamps on the chimney-piece, while, through the opened windows, we had a darkling view of the lawn on which they look, the concave shrubbery of tall cypress, yews, laurels, and lilachs [sic]; of the woody amphitheatre on the opposite hill, that seems to rise immediately behind the shrubbery; and of the grey barren mountain which, then just visible, forms the back ground. The evening-star had risen above the mountain; the airy harp loudly rung to the breeze, and completed the magic of the scene. |
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