3 o THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 



In fpite of courtly dulnefs, hear it own 



" There is a grace in wild variety 



*' Surpafling rule and order." * TEMPLE, yes, 



There is a grace ; and let eternal wreaths 



Adorn their brows who fixt its empire here. 40/5 



The Mufe (hall hail -f- the champions that herfelf 



Led to the fair atchiev.ement. ADD ISDN, 



Thou 



* The Paflage here alluded to is as follows : " What I have faid of the beft 

 " forms of Gardens is meant only of fuch as are in fome fort regular, for there 

 11 may be other forms wholly irregular, that inay^ for ought I know, have more beauty 

 " than any of the others : But they muft owe it to fome extraordinary difpofitions 

 -" of Nature in the feat, or fome great race of fancy and judgment in the contri- 

 " vance, which may reduce many difagreeing parts into fome figure which (hall 

 " yet upon the whole be very agreeable. Something of this T have feen in fome 

 " places, and heard more of it from others who have lived much among the 

 " Chinefes." Sir William then gives us a kind of general account of the Chi- 

 nefe tafte, and of their Sharawadgi, and concludes thus : " But I (hould 

 " hardly advife any of thefe attempts in the figure of gardens- among us, they 

 " are adventures of loo hardy achievement for any common hands ; and tho* 

 " there may be more honour if they fucceed well, yet there is more difhonour 

 * if they fail, and 'tis twenty to one they will, whereas in regular figures it is 

 " hard to make any great and remarkable faults." See Temple's Mifcellanies, 

 Vol. I..Pagei86. Fol. Ed. 



f I had before called Bacon the prophet, and Milton the herald of true tafte 

 .in Gardening. The former, becaufe in developing the constituent properties of a 



princely 



