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generally divided from the park by a sunk 

 fence, ox ha! ha! and happy would it have 

 been for the country, and the art, if he 

 had confined his talents within such boun- 

 dary. Unfortunately, without the same 

 great ideas, he fancied he might improve 

 by enlaj^ging his plans. This introduced 

 all that bad taste which has been attri- 

 buted to his great master, Brown. Hence 

 came the mistaken notion, that greatness 

 of dimensions would produce greatness of 

 Extant character: hence proceeded the immea- 



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for Beauty, suraoic cxtcnt ot uakcd lawn; tiie te- 

 dious length of belts and drives; the use- 

 less breadth of meandering roads; the 

 tiresome monotony of shrubberies and 

 pleasure grounds; the naked expanse of 

 waters, unaccompanied by trees; and all 

 the unpicturesque features which dis- 

 grace modern gardening, and which have 

 brought on Brown's system the oppro- 

 brious epithets of bare and bald. Yet 

 such is the fondness for what is great by 

 measurement, that the beauty of parks is 

 estimated by the acre, and the perfection 

 of walks and drives computed by the mile, 



