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du beau amené le goût du Jinguîier. The noble Jîmpltcity qf 

 tbe Augujîan âge was driven out by falfe tajie, The gigari" 

 tic, the peurile, the quaint, and at lajl the barbarous, and 

 the monkijh, had each their fuccejjive admtrers» Mujtc bas 

 been improved till it is a Jcience of tricks and jlight of 

 hand: the fober greatnefs of Titian is loji, and painting 

 fince Carlo Maratti, bas little more relief than Indian paper. 

 Borromini twijied and curled architeBure, as if it was fub- 

 je£f to the change of fafiions like a head of h air. If we 

 once lofe fight of the propriety of landfcape in our gardens^ 

 we Jhall wander into ail the faiitafic fiarawaggis of the 

 Chinefe. We hâve difcovered the point of perfeBion. We 

 hâve given the true model of gardening to the world -, let 

 other countries mimic or corrupt our tajie-, but let it reign 

 hère on its verdant throne, original by its élégant fmpli- 

 City, and proud of no other art than that of foftening na- 

 turels harjlmefes and copying her graceful touch. 



The ingenious author of the Ohfervations on modem 

 Gardening is, I think, too rigid when he coîidemns fome 

 dbceptiojis, becaufe they hâve been often ifed'. If thofe de^ 

 ceptions, as a feigned Jieeple of a dijiant church, or an 

 unreal bridge to difguife the tcrmination of water, were in- 

 ie'nded only to furprife, they were indeed tricks that would 

 not bear répétition : but being intended to improve the land- 



fcape,. 



