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degree of praise to Mr. Brown, for the 

 method in which he has planted the gar- 

 den scene which accompanies one part of 

 the Jake; but to judge properly of his 

 taste and invention in the management of 

 water, we must observe those banks with 

 their accompaniments, which he has form- 

 ed entirely himself, and that we may do 

 without quitting Blenheim: below the cas- 

 cade all is his. own, and a more complete 

 piece of monotony could hardly be fur- 

 nished even from his own works. When 

 he was no longer among shrubs and gravel 

 walks, the gardener was quite at a loss ; 

 for his mind had never been prepared by 

 a study of the great masters of landscape, 

 for a more enlarged one of nature : find- 

 ing, therefore, no invention, no resources 

 within himself, he copied what he had 

 most seen, and most admired — his own 



sense, no ej/e; and if be had had none in the literal sense, 

 it would have only been a private misfortune, 



And partial evil, universal good. 

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