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Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
the top of the building , and from an elevation of nearly 200 feet surveys the beautiful objects and the moving crowd beneath him . Nor is the view which greets his eye , as he gazes out of one of the 50 , 000 windows , less magnificent . On every side there is beauty , —scenery Avhich the world can hardly match , and evidences of the wealth and might of England which every other nation may well envy . On the west are the white villages of Norwood and Dulwichand beyond them the ires of several
, sp hundred churches , and the domes of public buildings , indicating the whereabouts of that mighty emporium of trade—London . On the east , an enchanting scene presents itself . Immediately beneath the spectator are the glorious terraces , with their parapets , balustrades , statues , and nrns . From them descend mighty flights of steps , leading the stranger along gravel-walks in- the midst of fountains and Italian gardens . To these succeed a genuine English garden , with its beds of standard roses
and other home flowers , which in its turn leads to the park and to cultivated wildernesses of shrubs and trees , fountains and basins , lakes and islands ; amidst which animals , and specimens of the different races of the great family of man , are placed , each in his sphere , surrounded by the" nature in which fate has placed his destiny , and following the pursuits which his appetite , fancy , or will suggest to him . And , again , beyond all this are the sweet Surrey hills , upon which endless shadows play , and
which are in themselves of sufficient beauty to rivet the attention of every lover of nature . Were we to speak of the interior we should fill a volume ; and we are therefore bound to content ourselves by emphatically observing , that there is nothing in the whole world which in our eyes can , as a whole , compare with the Sydenham Palace for beauty , or for the varied means it possesses of diffusing education , giving pleasure , or ennobling man ' s nature by lifting him nearer heaven .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Critical Notices Of The Literature Of The Last Three Months,
the top of the building , and from an elevation of nearly 200 feet surveys the beautiful objects and the moving crowd beneath him . Nor is the view which greets his eye , as he gazes out of one of the 50 , 000 windows , less magnificent . On every side there is beauty , —scenery Avhich the world can hardly match , and evidences of the wealth and might of England which every other nation may well envy . On the west are the white villages of Norwood and Dulwichand beyond them the ires of several
, sp hundred churches , and the domes of public buildings , indicating the whereabouts of that mighty emporium of trade—London . On the east , an enchanting scene presents itself . Immediately beneath the spectator are the glorious terraces , with their parapets , balustrades , statues , and nrns . From them descend mighty flights of steps , leading the stranger along gravel-walks in- the midst of fountains and Italian gardens . To these succeed a genuine English garden , with its beds of standard roses
and other home flowers , which in its turn leads to the park and to cultivated wildernesses of shrubs and trees , fountains and basins , lakes and islands ; amidst which animals , and specimens of the different races of the great family of man , are placed , each in his sphere , surrounded by the" nature in which fate has placed his destiny , and following the pursuits which his appetite , fancy , or will suggest to him . And , again , beyond all this are the sweet Surrey hills , upon which endless shadows play , and
which are in themselves of sufficient beauty to rivet the attention of every lover of nature . Were we to speak of the interior we should fill a volume ; and we are therefore bound to content ourselves by emphatically observing , that there is nothing in the whole world which in our eyes can , as a whole , compare with the Sydenham Palace for beauty , or for the varied means it possesses of diffusing education , giving pleasure , or ennobling man ' s nature by lifting him nearer heaven .