Mr. Kent mvented the new Jlyle, and ivbat hînts he had 

 received to fuggefi and condudl hîs undertaking, 



We hâve feen wbat Moor-park was, when pronounced a 



Jlandard. But as no fucceeding génération in an opulent and 



luxîirious country -cojîtents itfelf with the perfeBion ejîabîijhed 



hy its ancejîors, more perfecî perfeâîion was jîill fougbt ; and 



improvements had gone on, till JLondon and Wife had Jîocked 



our gardens with giantSy animais, monjîers,* coats of arms 



and mottoes in yew, box and holly, Abfurdity could go no 



farther, and the tide turned, Bridgtnan, the next Jajïmn~ 



able defigner of gardcjis, was far more chajîe \ and whether 



from good fenfe, or that the nation had been Jîruck and re^ 



formed by the admirable paper in the Guardian, N^ 173, 



he banijhed verdant fculpture, and did not even re'uert to 



the fquare precijion of the foregoing âge. He enlarged his 



plans, difdained to make every divifon tally to its oppofite, 



and though he jiill adhered much to ftrait walks with high 



clipped hedges, they were only his great li?îes', the reji he 



diverffied by wildernefs, and with hofe groves of oak, though 



Jîill within furrounding hedges. I hâve obferved in the 



garden 



* On the piers af a garden-gate mt far from Paris I obfervtd iw9 very 

 coquet fphinxes. Thefe lady monjlers had Jiraw hats gracefully fnuirt on ont ftdi 

 of their hcads, and filken cloaks half veiling their ntchs ; ail executed in Jiont* 



