OR, COLLOQUIES ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. LL.D. HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS, OF THE CYMMRODORION, OF THE MASSA- CHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, OF THE BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY, Of the metroPOLITAN RESPICE, ASPICE, PROSPICE.-St. Bernard. WITH PLATES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXIX. Ἢ ζητῶ ἀνθρώποις ἀρέσκειν ;-GALATIANS, 1. 10. Ωστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν;-GALATIANS, Iv. 16. LONDON: PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL YARD, PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. COLLOQUY X. CROSTHWAITE CHURCH.-ST. KENTIGERN. THOUGH the vale of Keswick owes little of its beauty to any work of man, the position of its Church is singularly fortunate. It stands alone,* about half a mile from the town, and somewhat farther from the foot of Skiddaw; and though not to be compared with the beautiful village churches of Lincolnshire and the West of Eng * Some of the oldest and finest yew trees in the country stood formerly in this churchyard. The vicar cut them down, thinking the wood might serve to make a pew for the singers, ..for which purpose it was found unserviceable, when too late. One of them grew beside the school-house, and was so large, that an old man, more than fifty years ago, told my excellent friend, whose name I now write with regret as the late Sir George Beaumont, he had seen all the boys, some forty in number, perched at one time upon its boughs. |