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breast-plate, all of gigantic size, we left a place of uncommon magnificence and equal beauty. Most of the alterations in the castle, and of the improve- ment, in the ground, are the works of the present Earl of Warwick within the course of the last twenty-five years; and it must be confessed, that they have rendered his residence superlatively fine. Nature and ancient art, indeed, had dene much for him in furnishing this spot with a beautiful river, aueaist woods, and a magnificent ol 1 ca >tl' ; but that nice perception of the beautiful, that delicate discriminating taste, which constitutes the piclu- resque feeling; which sees when to conceal, and when to display; which knows how to as ociatc, and how to detach; could alone produce the stri- king; effect that now arises from their admirable and judicious combinations.

��Yours, &c.

��R. W.

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