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pies in the art, are to be found in the works of Theocritus, 

 Homer, Virgil, Petrarch, Rousseau, Voltaire, Temple, Bacon, 

 Addison, Home, Gilpin, Allison, etc. 



35 That this simile may not appear ludicrous, I should ob- 

 serve that the ancient gardens were often made with refer- 

 ence to military dispositions, or trees were sometimes planted 

 in conformity to the order of certain battles ; thus, at Blenheim, 

 the square clumps planted before Brown saw the place were 

 in imitation of the famous battle from whence the place was 

 named. And in an old map of a place in Suffolk, which, I be- 

 lieve, was planned by Le Notre, the names of regiments were 

 given to square clumps or platoons of trees, which on paper 

 resembled the positions of an army. 



3^ Twelve years ago, when I first delivered these opinions, 

 they were deemed so contrary to modern practice that I was 

 cautious in defending them. I have since more boldly sup- 

 ported my original opinion, and rejoice that the good sense of 

 the country admits their propriety. 



37 Elements of Criticism. 



3^ Like those described by Sir William Chambers, in his 

 Chinese Gardening. 



39 By this term I mean to express scenery, less rude and 

 neglected than the forest haunts of wild animals, and less arti- 

 ficial than the farmer's field laid out for gain and not for 

 appearance : or, m the words of a celebrated author, " to create 

 a scenery more pure, more harmonious, and more expressive 

 than any that is to be found in nature itself." 



^° Lest it should be objected that I am going beyond the 

 precise boundaries of my profession, either as a landscape 

 gardener or as an architect, I shall observe that the professor 

 of taste in those arts must necessarily have a competent know- 

 ledge of every art in which taste may be exercised. I have 

 frequently given designs for furniture to the upholsterer, for 

 monuments to the statuary, and to the goldsmith I gave a 

 design for one of the most sumptuous presents of gold plate 

 which was ever executed in this country : it consisted of a 

 basin, in the form of a broad flat vase, and pedestal, round 



