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And, therefore, I cannot conceal my suspicion, that instead of furnishing any subject for panegyricks on our policy and caution, we are now wasting our treasures and our strength in a romantick expedition.
These maxims, my lords, which are generally true in the sense which their authors intended, may be very properly urged against the wild designs of ambition, and the romantick undertakings of wanton greatness; but have no place in the present inquiry, which relates to a war not made by caprice, but forced upon us by necessity; a war to which all the encomiums on peace, must in reality incite, because peace alone is the end intended to be obtained by it.
There are some remains of leaden pipes at Caernarvon, which, I suppose, only conveyed water from one part of the building to another. Had the garrison had no other supply, the Welsh, who must know where the pipes were laid, could easily have cut them. We came to the house of Mr. How we spent our time, I am not very able to tell . We saw the wood, which is diversified and romantick.
He took delight in hearing my description of the romantick seat of my ancestors. After we had again talked of my setting out for Holland, he said, 'I must see thee out of England; I will accompany you to Harwich. I could not find words to express what I felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard.
"He was going on, but she interrupted him with a loud laugh. 'Hold, hold, cried she; 'was there ever such a romantick description? I wonder how such silly ideas come into your head "shady bowers! and purling streams!" Heavens, how insipid! What! to be cooped up like a tame dove, only to coo, and bill, and breed? O, it would be a delicious life, indeed!"
The true story of this lady, which happened in this century, is as frightfully romantick as if it had been the fiction of a gloomy fancy. She was the wife of one of the Lords of Session in Scotland, a man of the very first blood of his country.
Then I in my turn repeated, 'The raven himself is hoarse. That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan, Under my battlements. I wish you had been with us. Think what enthusiastick happiness I shall have to see Mr Samuel Johnson walking among the romantick rocks and woods of my ancestors at Auchinleck! Write to me at Edinburgh.
The Gentleman I am married to made Love to me in Rapture, but it was the Rapture of a Christian and a Man of Honour, not a Romantick Hero or a Whining Coxcomb: This put our Life upon a right Basis. To give you an Idea of our Regard one to another, I inclose to you several of his Letters, writ Forty Years ago, when my Lover; and one writ t'other Day, after so many Years Cohabitation.
For your Instruction herein, you are to know that an Historian in Conversation is only a Person of so pregnant a Fancy, that he cannot be contented with ordinary Occurrences. I know a Man of Quality of our Order, who is of the wrong Side of Forty-three, and has been of that Age, according to Tully's Jest, for some Years since, whose Vein is upon the Romantick.
A great gardener and planter like others of the race of old Scottish judges he had extended, in the classic style of architecture then in fashion, the family mansion, and had, as Johnson found, 'advanced the value of his lands with great tenderness to his tenants. Past the older residence flowed the river Lugar, here of considerable depth, and then bordered with rocks and shaded with wood the old castle whose 'sullen dignity' was the nurse of Boswell's devotion to the feudal principles and 'the grand scheme of subordination, of which he lets us hear so much when he touches on 'the romantick groves of my ancestors.
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