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destruction. The taste became modified, and further attempts 

 to improve were not accompanied by such disastrous results. 

 Great thanks are due to those who first saw the mistake that 

 was being made, and who then had the courage to try and 

 arrest the onward progress of the fashion. The writings of 

 some of those who first appealed against the " Natural 

 School," were as strong in their language as that used but 

 a few years before by the abusers of the formal style. The 



NARFORD. NO. 2. 1S94. " 



following lines from Knight, the opponent of Repton, are a 



fair example : — 



" Hence, hence! that hags^ard fiencl however call'd, . 

 Thin meagre genius of the bare and bald ; 

 Thy spade and mattock here at length lay down 

 And follow to the tomb thy favourite Brown : 

 Thy favourite Brown, whose innovating hand, 

 First dealt thy curses o'er this fertile land."* 



* Landscape. By R. P. Knight, 1795. 



