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imagination naturally a friend to liberty here walks 

 painfully in the involved design of the parterre, anon 

 expires at the end of a long straight alley. Every- 

 where it regrets the slightly disordered beauty and 

 the piquant irregularity of Nature. Finally he has 

 only treated the mechanical part of the art of Gar- 

 dening; he has entirely forgotten the most essential 

 part, which seeks in our sensations, in our feeling, 

 the source of the pleasures which country scenes 

 and the beauties of nature perfected by art occasion. 

 In a word his gardens are those of the architect ; the 

 others are those of the philosopher, the painter, the 

 poet." . 



Horace Walpole declared that Mr. Pope undoubtedly 

 contributed to form Kent's taste, and wrote as follows: 



"At that moment appeared Kent; painter enough 

 to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinion- 

 ative enough to dare and dictate, and born with 

 a genius to strike out a great system from the twi- 

 light of imperfect essays. He leaped the fence and 

 saw that all nature was a garden. He felt a delicious 

 contrast of hill and valley changing imperceptibly 

 into each other, tasted the beauty of the gentle 

 swell and concave scoop, and remarks how loose 

 groves crowned an easy eminence with happy orna- 

 ment, and while they called in the distant view 

 between their graceful stems, removed and extended 

 the perspective by delusive comparison. Thus the 

 pencil of his imagination bestowed all the arts of 



