Note 29 — Chapter III · THE CHIEF COLLECTOR AND THE AUGMENTORS OF THE OLD ROYAL AND PUBLIC LIBRARY AT ST. JAMES’.

That Llanthony, in Monmouthshire, the purchase of which in the present century gave rise to so singular a chapter in the history of Landor, and whose charms, in retrospect, prompted the lines—

‘Llanthony! an ungenial clime,

And the broad wing of restless Time,

Have rudely swept thy massy walls,

And rockt thy Abbots in their palls.

I loved thee, by thy streams of yore;

By distant streams, I love thee more.’