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v 



hence it 



ident. that th 



e 



Poet 



banish entirely the Terrace 



more meant to 



dening, th 



or Grotto of the old styl 



Gar 



Columns or Arcades in Architecture: but as man 



kind always step at once from one extreme to another, so every 

 straight line became curved; and in contrasting Art with Na- 



ture, it was asserted, that a serpentine line was the true line of 



beauty 



that Nature abhorred 



a 



that in Nature's most 



straight line; forgetting 



ublime works the straight line prevails 



whicl 



the apparent horizon of the ocean, and the rays of th 

 i may be broken, but cannot be bent TK,„ «,„ 



cannot 



meandering and 



whether it was a line of a road 



bent 



Th 



favourite 



dulating line soon prevailed in every thing 



walk 



canal 



the surface 



of the ground, or even the fence of a plantation; till at length 



it became 



monotonous as th 



straight line 



m the kingdom was alike, whether large or small 



d every 



from a Citi 



Villa with two acres, surrounded by a shrubbery and 



pentme walk, to the Nobleman 



Park of two thousand 



pounded by . M, of p, a „ blion amI tiae 



'fr*™ — ' » 1-* <-W m have CM 



acres, 

 These 



forth 



a modern poet lin 



op 



es not less severe 





those of 



Prim gravel Walks, through which we winding g0 

 In endless Serpentines, that nothing shew, 



Till tir'd, I ask 



a 



And the pert gard'ner says 



Why this eternal round 



Tis pleasure-ground 



lish 



e 



f 



applied to this place, if all straight , in 



almost every tree would be sacrificed 



E 



m u st 



e abo 

 and if all the 



