orever seek the shade."

[38] _Spectator_, No. 489.

[39] No. 415.

[40] John Hill Burton, in his "Reign of Queen Anne" give a passage from a
letter of one Captain Burt, superintendent of certain road-making
operations in the Scotch Highlands, by way of showing how very modern a
person Carlyle's picturesque tourist is. The captain describes the
romantic scenery of the glens as "horrid prospects." It was considerably
later in the century that Dr. Johnson said, in answer to Boswell's timid
suggestion that Scotland had a great many noble wild prospects, "I
believe, sir, you have a great many, Norway, too, has noble wild
prospects, and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects.
But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever
sees is the high-road that leads him to England."

[41] See also Gray's letter to Rev. James Brown (1763) inclosing a
drawing, in reference to a small ruined chapel at York Minster; and a
letter (about 1765) to Jas. Bentham, Prebendary of Ely whose "Essay on
Gothic Architecture" has been wrongly attributed to Gray.

[42] To Mrs. Dorothy Gray, 1739.

[43] To Richard West, 1739.

[44] Gray, Walpole, and West had been schoolfellows and intimates at Eton.

[45] To West, 1740.

[46] To Mrs. Dorothy Gray, 1740.

[47] "Pearch's Collection" (VII. 138) gives an elegiac quatrain poem on
"The Ruins of Netley Abbey," by a poet with the suggestive name of George
Keate; and "The Alps," in heavy Thomsonian blank verse (VII. 107) by the
same hand.

[48] "A soft and lulling sound is heard
Of streams inaudible by day."
_The White Doe of Rylstone, Wordsworth_.

[49] "Samson Agonistes."

[50] "Essay on Pope" (5th ed.), Vol. II. p. 180.

[51] These were, in order of publication: "The Mountains and Lakes of
Cumberland and Westmoreland" (2 vols.), 1789; "The Highlands of
Scotland," 1789; "Remarks on Forest Scenery," 1791; "The Western Parts of
England and the Isle of Wight," 1798; "The Coasts of Hampshire," etc.,
1804; "Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex," etc., 1809. The last two
were posthumously published. Gilpin, who was a prebendary of Salisbury,
died in 1804. Pearch's "Collection" (VII. 23) has "A Descriptive Poem,"
on the Lake Country, in octosyllabic couplets, introducing Keswick,
Borrowdale, Dovedale, Lodore, Derwentwater, and other familiar localities.

CHAPTER VI.

The School of Warton

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