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joy liis tulips, amidst box or yeW hedged, 

 labyrinths, <Scc. 



" And in trim gardens take his pleasure." 



Tills mav be considered as no slight in- 

 dulgence from a professed admirer of the 

 Italian gardens ; for it is highly probable 

 that their destruction and the total banisK- 

 ment of that style was owing to its having 

 been contaminated, by being mixed with the 

 Dutch style at its introduction. All sculp- 

 tural and architectural ornaments in gardens, 

 though objections might be made to them as 

 being too artificial, not only give impressions 

 of magnificence and expensive decoration, 

 but also recall ideas of the most exquisite 

 works of art, even though the particular spe- 

 cimens should be rude copies, or imitations 

 of them : whereas the vegetable giants, obe- 

 lisks, &c. of a Dutch Garden when they 

 became principal, carried with them such 

 glaring marks of unimproveable rudeness 

 and absurdity, as made a change unusually 



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