The whole of his conversation, which steadily he maintained for nearly four hours, was a continued stream of light.

Well contented was I to be a listener.

His subjects were the architecture of the middle ages; the stained glass of that period; sculpture, embracing monuments particularly.

On this subject his opinion of Mrs.Nightingale's monument in Westminster Abbey, differs from all others that I have seen or heard.

He places it above every other in the Abbey, and observed in relation to it, that the spectator 'saw nothing else.' Milton, Shakspeare, Shenstone, Pope, Byron, and Southey were in turn remarked upon.