ར modern Gardening in England as far as diligence would have fupplied me with materials; but the fubject has had the better fortune to come under the agreeable, the lively, and at the fame time the accurate pens of Mr. Walpole. With all my readers I rejoice that I have been thus prevented. Which fills the fields with plenty. Hail that Art TH cerning the Harvest Moon, however falfe in philofophy, may, it is hoped, be admitted in poetry. NOTE E. Page 152. This rule is founded in Nature and Reason, and its univerfal application has the fanction of antiquity to fupport it. Quintilian, though certainly defective in his tafte for Landscape, and even an admirer of topiary works, has yet in the following paffage very well apologized for that regularity which he in general applauds, by making Utility and Profit, in thefe particular inftances, reafons for it. Nullufne fructiferis adhibendus eft decor? quis neget? namn et in or dinem dinem certaque intervalla redigam meas arbores: quid enim illo quincunxe fpeciofius, qui, in quamcunque partem fpectaveris, rectus eft? fed protinus in id quoque prodeft ut terræ fuccum æqualiter trahant. Decentior Equus cujus adftricta funt ilia, fi idem velocior. Pulcher afpectu fit Athleta cujus lacertos exercitatio expreffit, idem certamini paratior. Nunquam vero Species ab Utilitate dividitur." Quint. Inft. lib. viii. cap. iii. de Ornatu. Cicero has elegantly obferved, "Nullam partem corporis (vel hominis vel ceterarum animantium) fine aliqua neceffitate affictam, totamque formam quafi perfectam reperietis Arte non cafu. Quid in arboribus, in quibus non truncus, non rami, non folia funt denique, nifi ad fuam retinendam, confervandamque Naturam? nufquam tamen eft ulla pars nifi venufta. Linquamus Naturam, Artefque videamus; quid tam in Navigio neceffarium quam latera, quam carinæ, quam mali, quam vela? quæ tamen hanc habent in fpecie venuftatem, ut non folum falutis fed etiam voluptatis caufâ inventa effe videantur, Columnæ & templa & porticus fuftinent, tamen habent non plus Utilitatis quam Dignitatis. Capitolii faftigium illud & cæterarum Ædium non Venuftas fed Neceffitas ipfa fabricata eft. Nam cum effet habita ratio quemadmodum ex utraque parte tecti aqua aqua delaberetur, Utilitatem Templi, Faftigii Dignitas confequuta eft, ut etiam, fi in Cœlo Capitolium ftatueretur ubi imber effe non poffet, nullam fine Faftigio dignitatem habiturum fuiffe videatur. Hoc in omnibus item partibus Orationis evenit ut Utilitatem ac prope Neceffitatem fuavitas quædam & Lepos confequatur." Ciceron. de Oratore, lib. iii. I might multiply quotations without end, but will close with a paffage from the practical Architect Vitruvius, which may ferve as a comment on the above beautiful obfervation of Cicero: " Quod non potest in veritate fieri, id non putaverent (Antiqui) in imaginibus factum, poffe etiam rationem habere, Omnia enim certâ proprietate, & a veris Naturæ deductis moribus, traduxerunt in operum perfectiones ; & ea probaverunt, quorum Explicationes in difputationibus rationem poffunt habere Veritatis." Vitruv. lib. iv. cap. ii. de Ornamentis Columnarum. NOTE XIII. Verse 119. Than does this fylvan Defpot. Yet to thofe See Book the Firft, line 84. See alfo Mr. Pope's Epistle to Lord Burlington, line 57, Confult the Genius of the place in all, &c. A fundamental rule, which is here further enlarged upon from line 126. NOTE And that the tyrant's plea) to work your harm. Alluding to Milton. So fpake the Fiend, and with necessity, NOTE XV. Verse 327. Is curb'd by mimic frares; the flendereft twine Linnæus makes this a characteristical property of the fallow deer; his words are, arcetur filo horizontali. (See Syft. Nat. Art. Dama.) I have fometimes feen feathers tied to this line for greater fecurity, though perhaps unneceffarily. They feem, however, to have been in ufe in Virgil's time, from the following paf fage in the Georgicks: Stant circumfufa pruinis Sed fruftra oppofitum trudentes pectore montem |