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■viii PREFACE.
It is I think obvious, that neither the artful nor the
limple style os Gardening here mentioned, is right: the
one being too much refined, and too extravagant a
deviation from nature; the other, like a Dutch pidure,
an asseded adherence to her, without choice or judg-
ment. One manner is absurd; the other is insipid and
vulgar : a judicious mixture of art and nature, an extrad
of what is good in both manners, would certainly be
more perfed than either.
Yet how this union can be esseded, is dissicult to say.
The men of art, and the friends of nature, are equally
violent in defence of their favourite lyslem; and, like
all other partizans, loth to give up any thing, however
imreasonable.
Such a coalition is theresore now not to be expeded :
whoever ssiould be bold enough to attempt it, would
probably incur the censure os both sides, without
reforming either; and consequently prejudice himsels
without doing service to the Art.
But
It is I think obvious, that neither the artful nor the
limple style os Gardening here mentioned, is right: the
one being too much refined, and too extravagant a
deviation from nature; the other, like a Dutch pidure,
an asseded adherence to her, without choice or judg-
ment. One manner is absurd; the other is insipid and
vulgar : a judicious mixture of art and nature, an extrad
of what is good in both manners, would certainly be
more perfed than either.
Yet how this union can be esseded, is dissicult to say.
The men of art, and the friends of nature, are equally
violent in defence of their favourite lyslem; and, like
all other partizans, loth to give up any thing, however
imreasonable.
Such a coalition is theresore now not to be expeded :
whoever ssiould be bold enough to attempt it, would
probably incur the censure os both sides, without
reforming either; and consequently prejudice himsels
without doing service to the Art.
But