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    are mtromttted , rolling upon a paper * which is accoroodated to receive them , and so he traeeth them with his pen in their natural appearance , turning his little tent round by degrees , till he bath

    desighed the whole aspect of the field . This I have described to your lordship , because I think there might be good use made of it for chorography ; for otherwise to make landslips by them were illiberal ; though surely no painter can do them so precisely . " ( p , 3 OO . )

    The other passage to which I referred is quite as distant from the roncl of theology as that just quoted , unless as it may be connected with the poetic theology of Paradise Jjost . ) ' Itord Orford ,

    in an essay ** on modern garden * ing , " ( Worjcs . ii . 527 ) celebrates ** one man , one great man , on whom nor education nor custom

    could impose their prejudices . Who seems *\ vith the prophetic eye of ( taste to have conceived , l to have foreseen ,. modern ga rdeni ng , as Lord Bacon announced the

    discoveries since made by experimental philosophy . " Lord CX proceeds to quote , as . instances , the well-known descriptions , in Milton ' s fourth boqk , of the garden of Eden and the bounds of Para .

    disc . Dr . Aikin , in his u Letters from a Father to his Son , " has a criticism ( v . ii . 1 . 6 ) on this pas * B ^ ge of I ^ -ord OrforcTs essay , disputing MiltoxTs claim to originality , by quoting Claii * tiany and

    Kalian poems which preceded Paircu disc I + o&tJ I am suprised that the followingpassage , written probabJy before Milton Was born , pub . liahed in l 624 , and scarely unseen by the poet , before the formation of hi $ poem * has escaped the obser-

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    vation of both the essayist and hit critic . It is in the u Elements of Architecture /* where speaking of Ornaments without " , as gardens * fountains ^ groves % conservatories

    of rare beasts ^ birds andjishesy * Sir H . W . thus proceeds : — 6 c I must note a certain contrariety between building and gardening . For as fabricks should be

    regular , so gardens should be tr ~ regular , or at least cast into a very wild regularity . To exemplifie my conceit , I have seen a . garden , for the manner perchance incomparable , into which the first

    access was a high walk like a terrace , from whence might be taken a general view of the whole plot f > elow , but rather in a delightful ^ onfu si ort , than with ^ ny plain , distinction of the pieces . From this the beholder descending

    many steps , was afterwards conveyed again by several mountings and votings , \ o various entertainments of his scent and sight : which I shall not need to describe , for that pete poetical * Let me only note this that every prie of these diversities was as if he had

    been magically transported into a ne \ y garden ?* p . f ) 4 . Nothing caa shew the superiority of taste in Sf r KL Wotton , or be a fairer illustration by contrast , than the receipt to make a square gardert ' given ! bv his friend . and

    cotemCporary > Lbrd Bacon , in , his MrelilKnoWfi Essays . No * 4 p . - And noty , Mr . Editor , le ^ t yon should judge ^ he topics in this J > ilper to be rather glarinjgly

    unconnected , let me remind you of two examples which may excuse m ^ . D r . Youttg ^ w rote hii Essay oh Original * Compositi ^ pn ^ to introduce the death . bed of Addison , and Bishop Berkeley defended the

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    156 The Booic . Wortn . No . I .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/20/