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tinguent le pbeme Anglois, Son imagination est egalement 

 sage et feconde, elle prodigue les pensees neunes, et donne 

 le piquant de la nouveante, aux pensees anciennes; il embel- 

 loit les matieres les plus seches, par la coloris d'une elocu- 

 tion noble, facile, energeque, variee avec un art infini." 



In the gardens of Stowe is the following inscription to 



ALEXANDER POPE, 



Who, uniting the correctness of judgment 



To the fire of genius, 



By the melody and power of his numbers, 



Gave sweetness to sense, and grace to philosophy. 



H employed the pointed brilliancy of his wit 



To chastise the vices, 



And the eloquence of poetry 



To exalt the virtues of human nature ; 



And, being without a rival in his own age, 



Imitated and translated with a spirit equal to the originals, 



The best Poets of antiquity. 



WILLIAM KENT, whose portrait appears in Mr. Dalla- 

 way's rich edition of the Anecdotes of Painting. Kent, with 

 Bridgman, Pope, and Addison, have been termed the fathers 

 of landscape gardening.* Mr. Walpole, after reviewing the 



* I know not whether Milton's portrait should have been here noticed. 

 In a note to the eloquent, the talented, and graceful " Discours d'lnstalla- 

 tion, prononcS par M. le Vicomte H. de Thury, president de la Soeiete 

 d'Horticulture de Paris," it is beautifully observed, that " Personne n'a 

 mieux decrit ce delicieux jardin que Milton. Les Anglais regardent comme 

 le type de tons les jardins paysagers, et pittoresques, la description que fait 

 Milton du jardin d'Eden, et qui atteste que se sublime genie etoit egalement 

 poe'te, peintre et paysagiste." As I have sought for the portraits of Mr. 

 George Mason, and of Mr. Whateley, and have noticed those of Launcelot 

 Brown, and Mr. Walpole, Mr. Cradock, M. R. P. Knight and Sir U. Price, 

 who were all paysagists; surely our great and severe republican was one. 



The Prince de Ligne speaks thus of Milton : " les vers enchanteurs de 

 ce Roi des poetes, et desjardiniers. I do 



