Cathedral days : a tour through southern England (1887)
Dodd, Anna Bowman, 1855-1929, Deane, E. Eldon, ill · Boston : Roberts Brothers · leaf 300
made thehours seem trebly long. Once within the gates ofthe great estate, however, and we experienced anewthat peculiar sensation which we had noticed asbelonging to all such parks. Beneath the airy ave-nues of the great trees we were in another climate.These vast, perfectly finished, and carefully… … vO -5 LONGLEAT. 263 never fully to penetrate ; the glare of hot spacesof ground is unknown, so artfully are the laws oflandscape-gardening administered; the stretches ofturf and meadows are cooled by the well-placedgroups of trees; they are broken by a fountainthere, a gleaming pool beyond, by the…
Cathedrals
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