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of the globe. It was moreover a great literary age, and 

 writers and poets like Pope, Walpole, Shenstone, Gray, 

 Cowper, and Addison all wrote enthusiastically and 

 understandingly on landscape gardening. For instance 

 take the following examples from Shenstone's Essay on 

 Landscape Gardening: 



"Ground should be considered with a view to its 

 original character whether it be the grand, the 

 savage, etc." 



"The eye should follow down upon the water. " 



"No straight lines." 



"Vistas should look natural, a kind of balance in 

 nature. " 



"Art should never be allowed to set a foot in 

 the province of nature, otherwise than clandestinely 

 and by night. " 



"Hedges appearing as such are universally bad. 

 They discover art in nature's province." 



"Art indeed is often requisite to collect and 

 epitomize the beauties of nature, but should never 

 be suffered to put her mark on them. " 



"In gardening it is no small matter to enforce 

 either grandeur or beauty by surprise, for instance, 

 by abrupt transition from their contraries, but to 

 lay stress on surprise only, for example on the surprise 

 occasioned by a ha-ha (or ditch), without including 

 any nobler purpose is a symptom of bad taste and a 

 violent fondness for mere concetto. " 



Another authority writes that Shenstone allowed the 



