348 The Conclusion. Chap, i^.- 



Mr. Pope feems to hint at fuch Perfons as 

 thefe, in his afore-mention'd inimitable Ejfay 

 on Criticifm. 



A little Learning is a dangerous thing : 

 Drink deep, or tajte not the Pierian Spring. 

 There p allow Draughts intoxicate the Brainy 

 And drinking largely^ fobers us again. 



f This is certainly too much the Cafe of 

 many that pretend to give Defigns in Gar- 

 dening, as it is of many other Artizans^ and 

 I have, not long fince, feen one of them with 

 aDefign like a Butter-Print, taken out of one 

 of our old Books of Gardening, in as great 

 Ecftafy as Pythagoras was faid to be, when he 

 offer'd the Hecatomb to the Gods, for the 

 happy Invention of a very ufeful Problem in 

 the Mathematicks. 



Gentlemen therefore, in fuch Cafes, ought 

 not , to depend on the (ingle Judgment of 

 Themfelves, or a Gardener, (perhaps very 

 ingenious in many refpefts ) yet in this may- 

 be entirely ignorant. If he is at the Expence 

 of three or four good Defigns, it is certainly 

 the better, out of which he may chufe the 

 beft 5 which is all that I ihall fay as to 

 this Point. And as this IntroduBory Volume 

 is interfpers'd with the Happinefs, Ufe, and 

 Beauty of this Employ ^ it may not, 1 hope, 

 be improper to clofe it with that harmonious 

 and beautiful Portraiture of a Country Life, 

 by Horace^ and in imitation of him, by our 



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