NID unds give Vide the Task. Book 1. Vernor & Hood, Booksellers, in the Poultry. This record of his fate, exulting view, He died, worn out with vain pursuit of you. And, worn with vain pursuits, man also dies. Opposite to the entrance is a winding path, leading to THE GOTHIC TEMPLE. In the front of the Temple is a hexagon plat, surrounded with a beautiful variety of evergreens, flowering shrubs, and elms, whose stems are covered with a mantle of venerable ivy. In the centre of the plat stands a ma jestic acacia. On the left, a serpentine walk, under a sable canopy of spreading yews, winds to an elegant vista, bordered on either side with laurels, syringas, lilacs, and woodbines, overhung with the golden clusters of the laburnum, interspersed with branching elms, and beeches entwined with circling ivy. At the end of the vista stands a bust of Homer. This bust was in the possession of Cowper, when he resided at Weston, and stood in the shrubbery behind his garden; and, it may be seen, that the bard it represents ranked high in his estimation, by a Greek couplet which he wrote on its base, accompanied with a translation by Mr. Hayley, as follows: The sculptor nameless, though once dear to fame; Near the bust is a deeply-shaded, winding path, that leads through the Wilderness, and brings us to the Grove, whence we pass a handsome gate to the village of Weston, about the centre of which, on the right, is WESTON LODGE. This house is built of stone, showing a handsome and extensive front, ornamented by vines and jasmines, which entwine their spreading branches, and overhang the windows in verdant wreaths. It commands from the front a prospect into an orchard planted with well-grown trees, and the village, being straight, on either side may be seen its extremities, bounded at one end by the church, and, at the other, by the gate above mentioned. The inside is roomy and convénient it has a good kitchen-garden, and an orchard, which was formerly Cowper's Shrubbery; but the pursuits of its present possessor differing, in some degree, from those of the poet, every appearance of this kind is obliterated, except that an officious |