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Henry Wise. To which is prefixed, An Address to the 

 Nobility and Gentry, by J. Evelyn, Esq.; folio, 169^3; octavo, 

 1(199, 1717. Seventh edition in 1719. There is a curious 

 plate of a garden prefixed, and two neat ones at page 22. 

 There are also other cuts. Mr. Evelyn wrote this Address 

 purposely to recommend their " extraordinary and rare in- 

 dustry." And he also wrote the Preliminary Discourse to 

 that part which relates to Fruit-trees, wherein he thus breaks 

 out: — " Let us but take a turn or two in a well-contrived 

 and planted garden; and see what a surprising scene pre- 

 sents itself in the vernal bloom, diffusing its fragrant and 

 odoriferous wafts, with their ravishing sweets; the tender 

 blossoms curiously enamelled; the variously-figured shapes 

 of the verdant foliage, dancing about, and immantling the 

 laden branches of the choicest fruit; some hiding their blush- 

 ing cheeks; others displaying their beauties, and even court- 

 ing the eye to admire; others the hand to gather, and all of 

 them to taste their delicious pulps. Can any thing be more 

 delightful, than to behold an ample square (in a benign aspect) 

 tapestried and adorned with such a glorious embroidery of 



But somebody or other rummaging, 



Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: 

 Let not a monument give you, or me, hopes, 

 Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops. 

 The Quarterly Review, in reviewing Light's Travels, observes, that 

 " Cheops employed three hundred and sixty thousand of his subjects for 

 twenty years in raising this pyramid, or pile of stones, equal in weight to six 

 millions of tons; and to render his precious dust more secure, the narrow 

 chamber was made accessible only by small intricate passages, obstructed 

 by stones of an enormous weight, and so carefully closed, externally, as not 

 to be perceptible. Yet how vain are all the precautions of man! Not a bone 

 was left of Cheops, either in the stone coffin, or in the vault, when Shaw 

 entered the gloomy chamber." Sir Walter Scott himself, has justly received 

 many eulogies. Perhaps none more heart-felt, than the ci fusion delivered at 

 a late Celtic meeting, by that eloquent and honest lawyer, the present Lord 

 Chief Justice of the Court of Exchequer, in Scotland, which was received by 

 long, loud, and continued applause. 



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