MEMOIRS OF 



Salvator, and at others the foftnefs of 

 Claude; whofe numbers are of ftately 

 grace, and artful harmony ; while its allu- 

 fions to ancient and modern hiftory and 

 fable, and its inteffperiion of recent and 

 extraordinary anecdotes, render it extremely 

 entertaining. Adapting the paft and re- 

 cent difcoveries in natural and fcientific 

 



philosophy to the purpofes of heroic 

 verfe, the Botanic Garden forms a new 

 clafs in poetry, and by fo doing, gives to 

 the Britifh Parnaflus a wider extent than 

 it poflcfled in Greece, or in ancient, or 

 modern Rome. 



Nor is it only that this compofltion takes 

 unbeaten ground, and forms an additional 

 order in the fanes of the Mufes, it forms 

 that new order fo brilliantly, that though 

 it may have many imitators, it will proba- 

 bly never have an equal in it's particular 

 clafs ; neither would it's ftyle apply happily 

 to fubjecls lefs intrinfically pidurefque. The 



fpecies 



