Excerpt from On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature, Vol. 1 of 3: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations; And Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Habits, and Manners, of Various Nations
The following pages are the result of hours, stolen from an application to higher interests, and from the severity of graver subjects. They were written in the privacy of retirement, among scenes, worthy the pen of Virgil and the pencil of Lorrain; - scenes, which afford perpetual subjects for meditation to all those, who take a melancholy pleasure in contrasting the dignified simplicity of Nature with the vanity, ignorance, and presumption of Man.
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