Communicated to me by Mr. Dodsley ; 

 and written by Mr. Dalrymple, a Scotch 

 Advocate, the ingenious Author of the 

 Feudal Tenures; and who was married 

 about a week ago to the only Daughter of 

 the Earl of Oxenford. 



March. 18. 1760. PT. Shenstone. 



m^ (BULWimm^^ 



Every work of art proposes for ils end either 

 utility, or along with utility the raising certain plea- 

 sing sentiments in the human mind. Works which 

 propose the last end tor their aim have most dignity 

 in them, and therefore the arts by which they are 

 produced have a higher appellation. When we 

 speak of an art in which mere utility is intended, we 

 term it a mechanical art ; when we speak of an art 

 which joins pleasure to utility, we call it one of the 

 fine arts. 



The art of laying out gardens has, within little 

 more than an hundred jears in Europe, and within 

 a much less time in great Britain, started up from 

 being one of the former, to be one of the latter spe- 

 cies of these arts. In all ages men have known the use 

 of fruits, flowers, and herbs, for the pleasure of the 

 sat^ics', it is almost only in our age, that they have 

 introduced into gardens one half of the pleasing ob- 

 jects of art and nature, for the entertainment of the 

 i?nagincition. 



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