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" fhis was Moer-park, when I was acquainted mth te, 

 dud thefweeteji place y I think. tbat I hâve feen in my life, 

 either before or Jtnce, at home or abroad'* 



/ will make no farther remarks on fhis defcription, Any 

 man might dcfign and build as fweet a garden, who had 

 hecn born in and nevcr fiirred oui of Holbourn, It "was 

 nof pcculiar to fir William Temple to think in that vtanner. 

 How many Frcnchmen are there ivho hâve feen our gardens, 

 and Jlill prefcr n^tural fiights of Jîeps and Jlmdy cloijiers 

 covered with leadl Le Nautre, tbe archlteB of the graves 

 and grottocs at Verfailksy came hither on a mifion to im- 

 prove our tajle, He planted St. Jame/s and Greenwich 

 par ks— '710 great monuments of bis invention. 



To do farther jujîice to fir William Temple, I muft not 

 omit what he adds, '* What I hâve faid of the beft fortns of 

 gardens, is meant only offuch as are infime fort regular -, for 

 there may be other forms wholly irregular, that may, for 

 aught I kno'iPy hâve more beauty than any of the others -, but 

 they muft owe it .to finie extraordijiary difpoftions of nature in 

 the fiât, or fome great race of fancy or judgment in the 

 contrivance, which may reduce majiy difagreeing parts into 

 fome figure, -^hich fiall yet, upon the whole, be very agrée- 

 able. Soînething of this I hâve fien in fome places, but hearâ 



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