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and Mr. Pope in his celebrated Guardian. The first artists 

 who practised in this style, were Bridgman and Kent.* 

 Mr. Addison's pure taste on these subjects is visible even 

 where he prefers Fontainebleau to the magnificent Versailles, 

 in his paper in the Guardian, No. 101: "It is situated 

 among rocke and woods, that give you a fine variety of 

 savage prospects. The king has humoured the genius of 

 the place, and only made use of so much art as is necessary 

 to help and regulate nature, without reforming her too 

 much. The cascades seem to break through the clefts and 

 cracks of rocks that are covered over with moss, and look as 

 if they were piled upon one another by accident. There is 

 an artificial wildness in the meadows, walks, and canals; and 

 the garden, instead of a wall, is fenced on the lower end by 

 a natural mound of rock-work that strikes the eye very 

 agreeably. For my part, I think there is something more 

 charming in these rude heaps of stone than in so many 

 statues, and would as soon see a river winding through 

 woods and meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many 

 whimsical figures at Versailles." In No. 414 of his Spectator, 

 he says, " English gardens are not so entertaining to the 

 fancy as those in France, and Italy, where we see a large 

 extent of ground covered over with an agreeable mixture of 

 garden, and forest, which represent every where an artificial 

 rudeness, much more charming than that neatness and ele- 

 gancy which we meet with in those of our own country." 

 Mr. Murphy thus compares Addison with Johnson: "Ad- 

 dison lends grace and ornament to truth ; Johnson gives it 

 force and energy. Addison makes virtue amiable; Johnson 

 represents it as an awful duty." Addison has been called 

 the English Fenelon. Johnson calls him the Raphael of 

 essay writers. The imposing and commanding attitude of 



* To this interesting subject is devoted, a part of Mr. London's concise 

 and luminous review " Of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of Garden- 

 ing in the British Isles;" being chapter iv. of his Encyclopaedia. 



