Wordsworth, Christopher: Greece: pictorial, descriptive and historical (London, 1840)

The Emperor Hadrian possessed a magnificent villa at Tivoli, of which
the rains still remain. In it he endeavoured to perpetuate his own Recol-
lections of Greece. He there erected buildings, to which he gave the names
of Pceeile and Lyceum; by their side he planted the Grove of an Academy,
and he carried the stream of an ideal Peneus through the pleasant Vale of
an imitative Tempo.

The Traveller in Greece constructs in his own mind such a villa as this.
He furnishes it with the beautiful scenes which he once visited in that country;
he refreshes it with the clear waters and cool shades of a Tempe; lie decorates
it with the fair porticos of a Pceeile, a Lyceum, and an Academy.

But his recollections of Greece, like the buildings of Hadrian, are liable
to fall into decay; the Author of the following pages has, therefore,
attempted to give a permanence to his own reminiscences by constructing a
humbler Tivoli, in which lie hopes that others may perhaps enjoy some
share of that pleasure, which was felt of old by the Greek Traveller in the
Villa of Hadrian.

Harrow,

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