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last the lady was persuaded to marry him on the 

 terms much like those on which the Turkish princess 

 is espoused, to whom the Sultan is reported to 

 pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy 

 slave.'" Addison's genius will be for ever associated 

 with Holland House and its Gardens, especially as 

 like many men of letters he found relaxation in 

 the pleasures of a Garden, and has written most 

 charmingly in the Spectator about its joys, for- 

 getting when writing of them the severe classical 

 style he usually affected. 



He calls himself a " humorist in Gardening," and 

 says that his neighbours call him "very whimsical " 

 because he prefers the glory of the birds to the red 

 cherries they destroy. He very aptly compares 

 Poetry to Gardening. " I think there are as many 

 kinds of Gardening as of poetry ; your makers of 

 Parterres and Flower Gardens are epigrammatists 

 and sonneteers in this art ; contrivers of Bowers 

 and Grottos, Treillages, and Cascades are romance 

 writers. Wise and London are our heroic poets." 

 This last remark shows at once the school of 

 Gardening Addison belonged to in fact, there is 

 no doubt that he helped to bring in the Landscape 

 style ; its admirers always called "Bacon the prophet, 

 Milton the herald, and Addison, Pope, and Kent 

 the champions of this true taste in Gardening 

 because they absolutely brought it into execution." 

 Addison declares that " an Orchard in flower looks 



