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deration, wheth 



the original 



or 



th 



e more recent styl 



j 



dvisable; and how far both may be admitted, without the in 



congruous mixture of two thing 

 be blended in one rational plan. 



Gardens that of Versaill 



$ so opposite, that they cannot 

 I shall call the Ancient Style of 



intry by 



as introduced into this 



Le Nitre, in the beginning of the last century; and the Modern 

 Style, that called English, as invented by Brown, and practised 



ngland during the latter half of the last century. 



THE ANCIENT STYLE 



This consisted 



straight line 



had more reference to Art than to Nat 



and geometric fig 



and 



by A\ 



It was distinguished 



gle straight rows of trees, extended to 



a great distance, and far beyond the actual limits of the p] 

 The surface of the ground was cut 



into 



theatr 



raised up 



slop 



shapes called Mount 



called Amph 



and even 



the water was obliged to assume some geometrical outlin. ^ 

 far from consulting or following Nature, the chief object of Art 



was to display its triumph over Nature 



All this had its adm 



ers and became at length so much the fashion, that every garden 

 m the kingdom (whether great or small) was condemned to sub- 

 nut to ^ same strict rules, till they were brought into ridicul 



by the adm.rers of more natural landscape • as bv th. , 



ollnaJoWo r.f P • i • «^ape, as by the satirical 



allusions of Pope, m this couplet so often quoted 



Grove nods at Grove, eaeh Alley has a brother 



e 



• 





And half the platform just reflects the other 



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