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pies in the art, are to be found in the works of Theocritus, 

 Homer, Virgil, Petrarch, Rousseau, Voltaire, Temple, Bacon, 

 Addison, Home, Gilpin, Allison, etc. 



*s That this simile may not appear ludicrous, I should ob- 

 serve that the ancient gardens were often made with refer- 

 ence to military dispositions, or trees were sometimes planted 

 in conformity to the order of certain battles ; thus, at Blenheim, 

 the square clumps planted before Brown saw the place were 

 in imitation of the famous battle from whence the place was 

 named. And in an old map of a place in Suffolk, which, I be- 

 lieve, was planned by Le Notre, the names of regiments were 

 given to square clumps or platoons of trees, which on paper 

 resembled the positions of an army. 



3* Twelve years ago, when I first delivered these opinions, 

 they were deemed so contrary to modern practice that I was 

 cautious in defending them. I have since more boldly sup- 

 ported my original opinion, and rejoice that the good sense of 

 the country admits their propriety. 



37 Elements of Criticism. 



5* Like those described by Sir William Chambers, in his 

 Chinese Gardening. 



39 By this term I mean to express scenery, less rude and 

 neglected than the forest haunts of wild animals, and less arti- 

 ficial than the farmer's field laid out for gain and not for 

 appearance : or, m the words of a celebrated author, " to create 

 a, scenery more pure, more harmonious, and more expressive 

 than any that is to be found in nature itself." 



■•'' Lest it should be objected that I am going beyond the 

 precise boundaries of my profession, either as a landscape 

 gardener or as an architect, I shall observe that the professor 

 of taste in those arts must necessarily have a competent know- 

 ledge of every art in which taste may be exercised. I have 

 frequently given designs for furniture to the upholsterer, for 

 monuments to the statuary, and to the goldsmith I gave a 

 design for one of the most sumptuous presents of gold plate 

 which was ever executed in this country : it consisted of a 

 basin, in the form of a broad flat vase, and pedestal, round 



