ABSTRACT
He walked for above an hour in the green before his friend arrived. Captain Rivers then proposed to him to go bespeak his regimentals, and a erwards to take a view of the college. When they came to the end of Gra on-street, he was struck with admiration at the magni cent colonnade which forms the front of the parliament-house, and which surpasses every thing of its kind in being. Yet he thought there was some awkwardness about the roof, and that if a balustrade, with statues, had been added to it, it would have considerably increased its beauty. He was charmed with the noble front of the university, which is built in the nest taste, and every way suited to the dignity of that distinguished seat of learning. He could not help regretting, however, the want of a third building opposite the parliament-/house, which would have completed three sides, and which, if ever such a thing shall be erected, will make College-green surpassingly beautiful. Neither could he conceal his indignation at the vile watch-house shouldering King William’s statue, and which he was astonished the inhabitants would su er to exist an hour. Nor did he much admire the statue itself, which he thought unworthy of the great hero it represented27 – and the horse in particular such a clumsy brute, that he would have disgraced a brewer’s dray.
