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difficuîty and expence were tbe conjîituent parts of thofe 

 fumptuous and felfijh folitudes -, and every improvement that 

 was made, was but a Jiep farther from nature. Tbe tricks 

 of water-works to wet the unwaryy not to refrejh the pant- 

 îng JpeBator, and parterres embroidered in patterns like a 

 petticoat, were but the childifi endeavours of Jajlmn and 

 novelty to reconcile greatnefs to what it had furfeited on. 

 To crown thefe impotent difplays of falfe tafte, the fieers 

 were applied to the lovely wildnefs of form with which na- 

 ture bas dijîinguijhed each 'various fpecies of tree and firub. 

 The vénérable oak, the rotnantic beecb, the ufeful elm, even 

 the afpiring circuit of the lime, the regular round of the 

 chefnut, and the almojî moulded orange-tree, were correBed 

 by fuch fantajiic admirer s of fymmetry. Tbe compafs and 

 fquare were of more ufe in plantations than the nurfery- 

 man, Tbe meafured walk, the quincunXy and the étoile im- 

 pofed their u?ifatisfying famenefs on every royal and noble gar- 

 den. Tree s were headed, and their fides pared away ; many 

 French groves feem green chefs fet itpon pôles. Seats of 

 marble, arbours and fummer-houfes, ter minât ed every vijio ; 

 and fymmetry, even where the fpace was too large to permit 

 its being remarked at one view, was fo ejfential, that, as 

 Fope obferved, 



each alley has a brother. 



And half the garden juft refleâ:s the other. 



^ Knots 



