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particularly gardening, that that age produced, and 

 who " made Stratton, about seven miles from Win- 

 chester, his seat, and his gardens there some of the 

 best that were made in those early days, such indeed 

 as have mocked some that have been done since; and 

 the gardens of Southampton House, in Bloomsbury 

 Square, were also of his making;" the generous friend 

 of this Lord William Russell, the manly and patriotic 

 Duke of Devonshire, who erected Chatsworth, that 

 noble specimen of a magnificent spirit ;* Henry Earl 

 of Danby, the Duke of Argyle, beheaded in 1685, for 

 having supported the rebellion of Monmouth ; the 

 Earl of Halifax, the friend of Addison, Swift, Pope, 

 and Steele, and on whom a funeral poem thus speaks, 



In the rich furniture of whose fair mind, 

 Those dazzling intellectual graces shind, 

 That drew the love and homage of mankind.^ 



Lord Weymouth; Dr. Sherard of Eltham ; Collinson, 

 " to whose name is attached all that respect which is 

 due to benevolence and' virtue ;" Grindal, Bishop of 

 London, who cultivated with great success the vine 

 and other productions of his garden at Fulham; 

 Compton, Bishop of London, eminent, as Mr. Falco- 

 ner in his Fulham observes, for his unbounded charity 



* He was fined ^30,000. for having taken a favourite of the 

 king's, in the very presence chamber, by the nose, for having in- 

 sulted him, and afterwards dragging him out of the room. 



f It was to this nobleman, that Addison addressed his elegant and 

 sublime epistle, after he had surveyed with the eyes and genius of 

 a classical poet, the monuments and heroic deeds of ancient Rome. 



