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distance of a hundred miles from th 



metropolis, would rob it 



of all its importance, and more than half its interest and beauty 

 It would be absurd in this place to conform to the modern style 



of placing the house in the centre of its dom 



from which 



On the 



every thing is banished, but the beasts of the forest, 

 contrary, it must be classed with those royal and princely r 

 dences, which form the retreats of the great from the court 



pect near a Metropolis any thing lik 



either in the Palaces of Ver 

 any more than in the Metro 



or 



city 



w 



do not 



e 



perfect seclusion from mankind 



sailles, Potsdam 



Kensington 



& 



polis, as at Carleton House or St. Jam 



gardens behind the h 



To each of these the 



front must b 



may b 



e private, but the entrance 



we must not (as in 



«™ mufct ne exposed to the public; and we must not (as in 

 lesser places) consider the entrance of the park as the boundary 

 of the domain: on the contra™- T l»o M „i„™ • i , ., 



of the domain 



contrary, I have always considered the 



gate which opened immediately into the fore-court 



cour, 



th 



dressed limit of such Pal 



or basse 



to exclud 



from Hyde Pari 



And if it were pos 



£ or Kensington Gardens the 



gay assemblage of company which enlivens the scene, we should 



only produce one dull and cheerless solitude, without a single 



feature to constitute natural landscape, or to reconcile the mind 

 to art.fic.al rows of trees with their symmetrical formality 



It has been justly observed by a late Author on Tast 

 (Ka.mes), « that Symmetry on a small scale is di 



e 



(Lord 



where th 



o 



bject 



s 



too 



larg 



but 



e to 



" SymmeUy «* the eye in A __ 



•* '° - very ■■■*■ p »'-. *• **■ of : vmma s" 



pleasing 

 prehended at 



its parts:" and there 





