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cule as his real buildings have clone, and 

 none ever excited more : but 1 am con- 

 vinced tnat he would have struck out many 

 peculiar and characteristic effects; and that 

 a landscape-gardener who really deserved 

 that name, would have touched with cau- 

 tion what he had done, and would have 

 availed himself of many parts of such a gar- 

 den. Now, indeed, had such a garden ex- 

 isted, we might only know it by report ; for 

 it is highly probable that Mr. Brown, unless 

 restrained by the owner, would have so com- 

 pletely demolished the whole, as to " leave 

 not a rack behind/'* 



But though Vanbmgh did not make what 

 may properly be called a garden at Blen- 



* I should be sorry to be thought guilty of any unfairness 

 to Mr. Brown; but I can only judge of what it is probable 

 he would have done, by what he usually has done, and by- 

 the general tendency of his system : nor do I think it unfair 

 to suppose, that where there are instances of his having 

 spared old gardens or avenues, some resolute owner of a 

 more enlarged mind 



" The little tyrant of his place withstood.'* 



