Charles Ollier was an English publisher and writer, associated with the early publication of works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Leigh Hunt.
Charles Ollier
The Literary Pocket-Book For 1823
Ed. Leigh Hunt. Charles and James Ollier, 1823.
When we first saw that the Marylebone Fields were enclosed, and that the hedge-row walks which twined through them were gradually being obliterated, and the whole district artificially laid out...we underwent a painful feeling or two, and heartily deplored the destructive advances of what generally goes by the name of improvement...A few years however have elapsed, and we are not only reconciled to the change alluded to, but rejoice in it. A noble park is rapidly rising up...
The water is very extensive. As you are rowed on it the variety of views you come upon is admirable: sometimes you are in a narrow stream, closely overhung by the branches of trees; presently you open upon a wide sheet of water, like a lake, with swans sunning themselves on its bosom; by and by your boat floats near the edge of a smooth lawn fronting one of the villas; and then again you catch the perspective of a range of superb edifices, the elevation of which is contrived to have the effect of one palace