6a DESCRIPTION of GUNVILLE. 
many grand . apartments, and Tome very richly furnifhed ; but 
there is an awkward clumfinefs in fome parts of it ; at lead it 
wanted elegance to pleafe fo common a fpectator as myfelf. 
We may conclude that there is fomething in true tafte not de- 
pendant on opinion or fancy, but reducible to a criterion* 
Some places are univerfally applauded, fome as univerfally con- 
demned ; not that there is half fo many have an opinion of 
their own, as pretend to it. 
The owner of this flately fabrick may find in it comfort and 
delight ; I dare fay there is warmth in winter, and coolnefs in 
fummer ; I am fure there is cleanlinefs and grandeur. Me- 
thinks when I am admitted to fee a gentleman’s houfe, grati- 
tude forbids me to criticize. I am not at all qualified for this 
invidious talk ; and what is more, I am rather pleafed in my 
ignorance, than defire knowledge which may render me the lefs. 
happy. 
Befides the two ftories of grand apartments, you remember 
the attic flory is very neatly furnifhed ; but I apprehend 
the cielings are too low, and will hardly bear the fmoke of a 
candle in winter, or protect from the heat of the fun in fum- 
mer. 
The gardens feemed to pleafe you as little as the houfe. The 
temple, which hands at the extremity of the lawn, oppofite the 
back front, is indeed heavy ; and tho’ adorned with the. bufxs 
of the mod: celebrated of the antient and modern poets and phi- 
lofophers, gives no great idea of the tafle of the founder of it. 
It mu ft be acknowledged, at the fame time, that the' fituation 
