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¥ As far as vision is concerned, taste, in 

 " Shenstone's language, 



e Appropriates all we see.' 



" But (without any reference to actual pro- 

 46 perty) a narrow line of partition is of 

 " itself a disgreeable object; and wherever it 

 " obtrudes upon the sight in such a form, 

 " necessarily destroys harmony of landscape. 

 " A place, however, must be very destitute 

 " of inequality of ground, not to admit a 

 " change in the nature of the narrow line by 

 " low plantations adjoined to it, without ob- 

 " structing the view above it. There are 

 " shrubs of every stature (down to the creep- 

 " ing perriwinkle) proper for this purpose 

 (t within a garden, and there are hollies and 

 " thorns for pastures." 



Can any thing be more superficial than 

 these observations ? and yet their author 

 applies that term to the elaborate discussion 

 we have just been considering, as taken from 

 the Observations on Modern Gardening. 

 Mr. Mason's ideas upon the subject, I think, 

 are not to be ascertained from the above 

 extract; the only use of which is, that it 



