XX The PREFACE. 



any Defigner can fteer by, both for Frugal!^ 

 ty in the Execution, and Noblenefs of Gar- 

 dens when they are aftually accompliftied. 



I cannot better take my leave of this im- 

 perfe<3 EflTay on 'Defigriy than by Quotations 

 out of thofe celebrated Authors, the Right 

 Honourable the Earl of Rofco7n?non^ in his 

 Tranflation of Horace's Art of Poetry 3 and 

 Mr. Pope, in his inimitable Effay on Criti- 

 c'lfvu Thefe Authors probably had no 

 Thoughts of applying them to Gardening 5 

 but from them are deducible fome of the beft 

 Strokes conceivable for our prefent Purpofe 5 

 the firft, inculcating the Grounds of true De- 

 figns in Poetry, and the Faults generally 

 committed for want of a thorough Under- 

 ftanding and folid Judgment in that Art 5 

 contrary to a mean-fpirited and trifling man- 

 ner, common enough in Poetry as well as 

 Gard'ning, fays. 



The meanejl Workman in tV uEmilian Square 

 May grave the Nails^ and imitate the Hair^ 

 But cannot finip v^hat he has hegini. 

 What is there more ridiculous than he § 

 For one or txco good Features in a Face^ 

 Where all the reft are fcandaloujly ill^ 

 Make it but more remarkably deformed. 



E of Rofeommon. 



And the other moft excellent Critick : 



Firft follow Nature^ and your Jiidgrnent frame 

 By herjuft Standard^ vchich isjlillthefame -^ 



Unerring 



