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delights of Paradise. He seems, with the pro- 

 phetic eye of taste (as I have heard taste well 

 defined), to have conceived, to have foreseen, 

 modern gardening ; as Lord Bacon announced 

 the discoveries since made by experimental 

 philosophy. The description of Eden is a 

 warmer and more just picture of the present 

 style than Claude Lorraine could have painted 

 from Hagley or Stourhead. The first lines I 

 shall quote exhibit Stourhead on a more mag- 

 nificent scale : 



" Thro' lden went a river large, 

 Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill 

 Pass'd underneath ingulf 'd, for God had thrown 

 That mountain as his garden-mound, high rais'd 

 Upon the rapid current." 



Hagley seems pictured in what follows : 



" Which thro' veins 



Of porous earth with kindly thirst updrawn, 

 Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill 

 Water 'd the garden." 



What coloring, what freedom of pencil, what 

 landscape in these lines : 



" From that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, 

 Rolling on orient pearls and sands of gold, 

 With mazy error under pendent shades 

 Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed 



