The whole forms a resort of regal loveliness and of endless sylvan variety.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
"We owed it," says his friend, "to Hampstead air with its many sylvan beauties that du Maurier was able for so long, notwithstanding defective sight and health gradually failing, to prosecute his daily work with scarce an interruption."
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
One morning as she stepped out like Psyche from her bath, and stood for a moment where an ardent sunbeam entering slyly through the bower above wrapped her in golden embrace, upon that sylvan mystery intruded a sound which blanched the roses on Flamby's cheeks and seemed to turn her body to marble.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer