2 3 o THE PRAISE OF GARDENS 



here ; and I would have showed him the garden-seat, under which 

 Sir William Temple's heart was buried, agreeably to his will ; 1 but 

 the seat was gone, also the wall at the back of it ; and the ex- 

 quisitely beautiful little lawn in which the seat stood was turned 

 into a parcel of divers-shaped Cockney clumps, planted according 

 to the strictest rules of artificial and refined vulgarity. 2 Rurai 

 Rides. 



MADAME f^ ARDENS are almost as beautiful in some parts of Germany 

 as * n England > tne luxury of gardens always implies a love 

 of the Country. In England simple mansions are often built in 

 the middle of the most magnificent parks ; the proprietor neglects 

 his dwelling to attend to the ornament of nature. This magnifi- 

 cence and simplicity united do not, it is true, exist in the same 

 degree in Germany ; yet, in spite of the want of wealth, and the 

 pride of feudal dignity, there is everywhere to be remarked a 

 certain love of the beautiful, which sooner or later must be 

 followed by taste and elegance, of which it is the only real source. 

 Often, in the midst of the superb gardens of the German princes, 

 are placed ^Eolian harps close by grottoes, encircled with flowers, 

 that the wind may waft the sound and the perfume together. 

 The imagination of the northern people thus endeavours to create 

 for itself a sort of Italy ; and during the brilliant days of a short- 

 lived summer, it sometimes attains the deception it seeks. 

 Germany, Chap. I. 



MAINE DE One of the few true Psychologists France has producea, who anticipated 



BIRAN Schopenhauer in making the Will the main- spring of his Philosophy. 



(17 -i 24). - HAVE experienced, this evening, in a solitary walk taken 



^ during the finest weather, some instantaneous flashes of that 



ineffable enjoyment, which I have tasted at other times, and at 



1 Is Cobbett accurate here ? It has always been supposed that it was a sun- 

 dial (near the east end of the house) under which Temple's heart was buried in 

 a silver box in 1698. 



2 About 1858 Moor Park was a Hydropathic Establishment. In 1896 it was 

 again for sale. 



