HORACE WALPOLE. 



A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF WII/EJAM KKN*T. 



UNDER the auspices of Lord Burlington and 

 Lord Pembroke, architecture, as I have 

 said, recovered its genuine lustre. The former, 

 the Apollo of arts, found a proper priest in the 

 person of Mr. Kent. As I mean no panegyric 

 on any man, beyond what he deserved, or what 

 to the best of my possibly erroneous judgment 

 I think he deserved, I shall speak with equal 

 impartiality on the merits and faults of Kent, 

 the former of which exceedingly preponderated. 

 He was a painter, an architect, and the father 

 of modern gardening. In the first character, 

 he was below mediocrity ; in the second, he was 

 a restorer of the science ; in the last, an original, 

 and the inventor of an art that realizes painting 

 and improves nature. Mahomet imagined an 

 Elysium, but Kent created many. 



