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though fallen, and wîth darknefs and folitude compafTed 

 round, judged that the miftaken and fantajiic ornaînents he 

 had feen in gardens, wcre unworthy of the almighty hand 

 that planted the delights of Paradife. He feems wîth the 

 frophetic eye of tafte \as I hâve heard tajie well defned'\ 

 to hâve conceivedt ta hâve forefeen modem gardening -, as lord 

 Bacon announced the difcoveries fnce made hy experifnental 

 fhilofophy. The defcription of Eden is a warmer and more 

 juji pîBure of the prefent flyîe than Claud Lorrain could hâve 

 fainted from Hagley or Stourhead. The frji Unes I Jhall 

 quote, exhibit Stourhead on a more magnificent fcaîe. 



Thro' Eden went a river large, 

 Nor chang*d his courfe, but thro' the fliaggy hill 

 Pafs'd underneath ingulph'd, for God had thrown 

 That mountain as his garden-mound, high rais'd 



Upon the rapid current 



Hagley feems pidîured in what follows, 



which thro' veins 

 Of porous earth wîth kindly thirft updrawn, 

 Rofe a frefh foifhtain, and with many a rill 



Water'd the garden 



IVbat 



