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In an evening, we frequently took long walks from Oxford into the country, returning to supper. Once, in our way home, we viewed the ruins of the abbies of Oseney and Rewley, near Oxford. After at least half an hour's silence, Johnson said, "I viewed them with indignation!"
Nay, to come nearer home, much as I know I should have loved the willowy meadows between the network of the streams of Thames and Cherwell; yet I should not have been ill content as Oxford crept northward from its early home of Oseney, and Rewley, and the Castle, as townsman's house, and scholar's hall, and the great College and the noble church hid year by year more and more of the grass and flowers of Oxfordshire.
Giles in Edinburgh. Croker's Boswell, p. 283. In The Rambler, No. 82, Johnson makes a virtuoso write: 'I often lamented that I was not one of that happy generation who demolished the convents and monasteries, and broke windows by law. He had in 1754 'viewed with indignation the ruins of the Abbeys of Oseney and Rewley near Oxford. Ante, i. 273. Andrews as 'the skeleton of a venerable city.
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