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highly cultivated, one single plan, and 

 such a plan, should have been so generally 

 adopted ; and that even the love of pecu- 

 liarity should not sometimes have checked 

 this method of levelling all distinctions, of 

 making all places alike * ; all equally tame 

 and insipid. 



Few persons have been so lucky as ne- 

 ver to have seen or heard the true pmer ; 

 smiling, and distinctly uttering his flow- 

 ing common-place nothings, with the same 

 placid countenance, the same even-toned 

 voice : he is the very emblem of serpentine 

 walks, belts, and rivers, and all Mr. Brown's 

 works ; like him they are smooth, flowing, 

 even, and distinct; and like him they wear 

 one's soul out. 



There is a very different being of a 

 much rarer kind, who hardly appears to 

 be of tiie same species ; full of unexpected 



# A person, well known for his taste and abilities, being 

 at a gentleman's house where Mr. Brown was expected, 

 drew a plan by anticipation ; which proved so exact, that 

 I believe the ridicule it threw on the serious plan, helped 

 |o prevent its execution. 



