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" designed at some future day to represent 

 " the wild outline and picturesque glades of a 

 " natural wood. When the line of these is 

 " dictated by the character of the ground, 

 " such attempts are extremely pleasing and 

 " tasteful. But where a bizarre and extrava- 

 '• gant irregularity of outline is introduced 

 " upon a plain, or rising ground ; when its 

 " whole involutions resemble the irregular 

 " flourishes of Corporal Trim's harangue; and 

 *' when we are told that this is designed to 

 " be one day a picturesque plantation ; we 

 " are tempted to recollect the common tale 

 " of the German baron, who endeavoured to 

 *' imitate the liveliness of Parisian society 

 " by jumping over stools, tables, and chairs 

 " in his own apartment ; and when the other 

 " inhabitants of the hotel came to enquire the 

 " cause of this disturbance, answered them 

 " with the explanation sli apprends d'estre ff. 

 " If the visiter applies to know the meaning of 

 " the angles and contortions introduced into 

 " the lines of the proposed plantations in 

 " Petruchio's language, 



' What ! up and down, carved like an apple tart; 

 Here's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash. 

 Like to a censor in a barber's shop;* 



