imple artifice of this prudent mechanic,
always recurs to my mind, when I observe the manner in which our modern
improvers repair and embellish old places; not knowing how to employ the
terraces, mounds, avenues, and other features which they find there,
they take them all away, and cover the places which they occupied with
turf. It is a short and easy method of proceeding; and if their
employers will be satisfied with it, they are not to be blamed for
persevering in it, as it may be executed by proxy, as well as in
person."

Severely (and no doubt justly), as the too generally smooth and
monotonous system of Mr. Browne has been condemned, yet he must have had
great merit to have obtained the many encomiums he did obtain from some
of our first nobility and gentry. The _evil_ which he did in many of
their altered pleasure-grounds, _lives after him--the good is oft
interred in his grave_.

[105] Mr. George Mason justly observes that "Nature's favourite haunts
are the school of gardening."

[106] Dion. Chrysostom said of Xenophon, that "he had something of
witchcraft in his writings." It would not be too much to say the same of
this poet.

THE END.

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