FRAGMENT XVI. 



CONCERNING 



VILLAS. 



0- 



It has often been hinted to me, when called on for my opinion 



can hardly be ex- 

 as to those of many 



concerning pi 



of small extent 



pected to give to them 



e same attention 



hundred acres, 

 contrary, they 



My 



en 



h 



generally been, that, on the 



They may b 



require more attention than larger pi 



compared to the miniature, with 



portrait large as life 



th 



e 



finished 



but the likeness is the 



formernreq 



to be 



pect to the 

 e highly 



mor 



in th 



hief object ; and this likeness 



e picture may be compared 



Landscape Gardening to 



and 



*ft peculiar identity which adapts the place to the wants _ 

 w,shes o* the proprietor, and the character exclusively belong 



one step further : if the 



mg to each 



noble 



pursue the simile 



man will be painted 



country gentleman 



as a mail coachm 



th 



) 



or th 



shall look for the likeness in vain 



dress he wore at a masquerade 



plain 



> 



we 



wilh 



e art 



field of twenty 



if the park be plowed and 



of Landscape Gardening becomes 



profess to improve the value of land, but its heauty 

 profess to gratify vanitv W A',^> J 



affect to be a park, 

 useless : it does not 



it does not 



tend 



mfort 



amty, by displaying great extent, but to 



far as it is feasibl 



J 



and, if possible, to incul 



