原文 (英語)

Envy will be a science when it learns the use of the microscope. When leaves fall and flowers fade, great people are found in their country-seats. Look!--that is Montfort Court,--a place of regal magnificence, so far as extent of pile and amplitude of domain could satisfy the pride of ownership, or inspire the visitor with the respect due to wealth and power. An artist could have made nothing of it. The Sumptuous everywhere; the Picturesque nowhere. The house was built in the reign of George