text:  The person who owns the ground and the ruins is a poet a philosopher a scholar so at least he wishes to be thought; but from the condition of the abbey (a small pot-house protruding its vulgar sign from one of the noble entrances and a skittle-ground being established in the main aisle--desolation neglect and dirtiness all around ) we formed no very high estimate of the taste or feeling of Mr Walter Savage Landor