



tll.lt till- 'lll.Hllis W.'llld II. 



\e him. I. >Til < !bham him- 

 . in his eleg\ upon Blenheim. 



written .it < i\tord in l"J7, tlms 

 iks il tin tarn. 'us p.irk anJ 



Like : 



tllr \nl>- 



irmpe. fum'd in MU>X. nor Ida'* 



K'' 

 Siirh l-nt\ IMUIMV Allllil Ihc liia/y 



gloom 



ni ih!* riniifiii'.i. Hildrrnr** OIUT I.NN| 

 Tin- l>w 'r of K'MamoinU. haplew fair. 



Bui ee where, flowinx with noMrr 



trrani. 



A limpid lake of purel wntcr rolb 

 ll nmth Ilir wide-itrrlfh'd arrh. Mil- 



|x II. lotto Hiirk 



Throiixh which the luiuil* mixlit ! 

 leclrd |Mittr 



lli spacious urn! Silent awhile anil 

 smooth 



The ritrrrnl glide*, till, with an head- 

 long force 



Broke and ilixinlrr'il, flown the >teep it 

 fall. 



In loud caacade*; the ilver |iarklinx 



(ilitter* rrlucent in the dancing ray." 



But the landscape gardeners. 

 as has been remarked, vwn found 

 that their efforts did not meet with 

 universal approbation. Kipt.m, 

 who swept away the teiraco at 

 Burley-on-the-Hill, and nas .1 

 great exponent of the new iiu-tl).>ds. 







Mr, I.,, 

 OLD GATE AND SUNDIAL. N< >H< IN <> iNU.ks. >okKSMIkE. 



i-\r' lined that hi- uli-a '- .ila\s t .lispl.iy n.itural 

 K-autie> and tu funceal di-lc. !. t.i i.nurv the impres- 

 >i.'ii "I MA- and In rrm\<- \isibli- boundaries, and. in 

 >hort. to mve to hi> garden the freedom of Nature. 

 nlusin- to ha\e in it objects of mere io.iveii. 

 or Comfort if they were im'apable of bein^ embo.li. .! 

 in Miih a design. The argument is. perlups. it- 

 own Confutation. Those \\h were M ,-kin- a ^.irden 

 could not diMover one in sudi a ireation as Kepton 

 proposi-d, and .1 s t h.>-.l atosi- \vhuh either ur^cd a 

 middle course or a return to the older style. Sir 

 Uvedale Pru'e, whose opinion has been I'lted. \v.i- -me 

 of the former ; Payne Knight, who wrote " The Land- 

 scape." apparently f the latter. He craved for the 

 moss-^rown terrace and the ancient avenue, sn-kin^ 

 for vme object to mark " the flat insipid plain." He 

 had no sjtist.it tin in seeing a house 



MiiUt nhiiven lawnthat fat aruund it i rrr].. 

 In one eternal undulating wee|>. 

 Ami iK-altt-iM tlum| that iml at onr nother. 

 Hach Mtfllv wnvtnx t" it* formal >rothrr." 



The pure lands- .n. in fact, have no 



dominating place in the garden. Its gentle sweep and 

 fertile aspect form a pleasant outlook when UK- garden 

 itself has been explor. 



It will not N- overlooked, indeed and the punt 

 tmp'ttance that gardens such as tlv-se lu\e 

 n.. direct t relation t" ttie houv. They 



mi-^ht well N- public n-irJeiis. and quite apart from 

 any dwelling whatever. They embody an attempt 

 to .id.ipt N.iturt according t" the lonception <if UK- 

 picturesque Svh<>l. and have within]! in common with 

 the pleached alle\ s and vqu -tered bowv 



ivthan and Stuart j-ardi-ns. Tin- r.-mantit 

 had come as .1 recoil from the grt-.it formality whu.li 

 had tfept ..\t-r ^.itd.-n design, and the id. 

 sequestered calm h.id mostly vanishcJ from such 

 FlieN were pastoral landscape ..r wiwidl.ind 

 !x-autiful in tlieir kind, gret-n and fruitful 

 wildernesM-s. SIR|I as B"n..uci" might have loved or 

 -in painted, and their walks we- ttiilly 



planned that they so, med interminable. AS I 



Xrmine Plac--. in "Henrietta Temple." there 

 nt in an ideal lands ! L -n where the 



