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" I fee," his hofl refum'd, " my fportive art 445 



* ( Finds pardon here; not ev'n yon claffic form, 

 " Pouring his liquid treafures from his vafe, 

 " Tho' foreign from the foil, provokes thy frown. * 

 " Try we thy candor further : higher art, 

 " And more luxurious, haply too more vain, 450 



" Adorns yon fouthern coppice." On they paft 

 Thro' a wild thicket, till the perfum'd air 

 Gave to another fenfe its prelude rich 

 On what the eye fhould feaft. But now the grove 

 Expands ; and now the Rofe, the garden's Queen, 455 



Amidft her blooming fubjeclis' humbler charms, 

 On ev'ry plot her crimfon pomp difplays. 

 " Oh Paradife !" the ent'ring youth exclaim'd, 

 *' Groves whofe rich trees weep odorous gums and balm, 

 *' Others whofe fruit, burnifh'd with golden rind, 460 



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* It is hoped that, from the petition of this River-God in the menagerie ; from the 

 fituation of the bufls and vafes in the flower-garden ; and that of the ftatue in the con- 

 fervatory, the reader will deduce the following general precept, " that all adventitious 

 ornaments of fculpture ought either to be accompanied with a proper back-ground, (as 

 the Painters term it) or introduced as a part of architectural fcenery ; and that when, 

 on the contrary, they are placed in open lawns or parterres, according to the old mode, 

 they become, like Antaeus and Enceladus, mentioned in the beginning of this book, 

 mere /care-crows." 



