16 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



" general, nothing contributes so much to 

 " give both variety and consequence to the 

 " principal building as the accompaniment, 

 " and, as it were, the attendance, of the in- 

 " ferior parts in their different gradations. It 

 " is thus that Virgil raises the idea of the 

 " chief bard, — 



" ' Musaeum ante omnes ; medium nam plurima turba 

 Hunc habet, atque humeris extantem suspicit altis.' 



" Of this kind is the grandeur that charac- 

 " terises many of the ancient castles, which 

 " proudly overlook the different outworks, 

 " the lower towers, the gateways, and all the 

 " appendages of the main buildings; and this 

 " principle, so productive of grand and pictu- 

 " resque effects, has been applied with great 

 " success by Vanbrugh to highly ornamented 

 " buildings, and to Grecian architecture. The 

 " same principle (with those variations and 

 " exceptions that will naturally suggest them- 

 " selves to artists) may be applied to all 

 " houses. By studying the general masses, 

 " the groups, the accompaniments, and the 

 " points they will be seen from, those ex- 

 " terior offices, which so frequently are buried, 

 " if not under ground, at least behind a close 



