snight have been expected to endure as 

 long- as nature should exist. 



Nature is alike the model to the poet, Nature: 

 the painter, and the gardener, who all Model. 

 profess to be her imitators: but how few 

 have genius or taste to avoid becoming 

 mannerists. Brown copied nature, his il- 

 literate followers copied him; and in such 

 hands, without intending to injure his 

 fame, or to depart from his principles, the 

 fashion of English gardening was in dan- 

 ger of becoming more tiresome, insipid, 

 and unnatural, than the worst style of 

 Italian or Dutch examples. 



Mr. Brown after his death was imme- Brown's 

 diately succeeded by a numerous herd of corrupted. 

 Lis foremen and working gardeners, who, 

 from having executed his designs, became 

 consulted, as well as e7nployed, in the se- 

 veral works which he had entrusted them 

 to superintend. Among these, one person 

 had deservedly acquired great credit at 

 liarewood, at Holkham, and other places, 

 by the execution of gravel walks, the 

 planting of shrubberies, and other details 

 belonging to pleasure grounds, which were 



