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dernefs for her children, at the time they
are leaft interefting to others.

But to the deformer (a name too often
fynonymous to the improver) it is not ne-
ceffary that his trees fhould have attained
their full growth; as foon as he has made
his round fences, and planted thern, his
principal work is done; the eye which
ufed to follow with delight the bold fweep
of outline, and all the playful undulation
of ground, finds itfelf fuddenly cliecked,
and its progrefs ftopt, even by thefe em-
bryo clumps. They have the fame effedt
on the great features of nature, as an ex-
crefcence on thofe of the human face; in
which, though the proportion of one fea-
ture to another greatly varies in different
perfons, yet thefe differences (like fimiiar
ones in inanimate nature) give variety of
charadter, without difturbing the general ac-
cord of the parts: But let there be a wart.

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