represented, in the strongest terms, that the materials could not be imported into the realms they were about to enter. That, were this even the case, they could be there of no importance. However, she had not extirpated the bias of this craving dame, when they approached the temple to which I formerly alluded.

THE temple stood upon a lofty hill, half encircled with trees of never-fading verdure. Between the milkwhite columns (which were of the Doric order, the bases gilt, as also the capitals) a blaze of glory issued, of such superior lustre, that none beside the governess was able to approach it. She, indeed, with a dejected countenance, drew near unto the goddess; who gently waved her hand in the way of

salutation.

THE matron seemed less dazzled, than delighted, with her excessive beauty. She accosted her with reverence, and with much diffidence began to mention their pretension to her favour. "She must own, she "had been too remiss in the beginning of her govern

ment; she hoped it would be attributed to inex"perience

"perience in the subtle wilds of her fellow-travellers. "She flattered herself, that her severity towards "the conclusion of her journey might in some sort "make atonement for her misbehaviour in the beginning. Lastly, that she sometimes found it impossible to hear the dictates of the Goddess amid "the clamours of her pupils, and the din of their "persuasions."

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66 You have heard," said she, no doubt that the "favours I bestow, are by no means consistent with a “state of inactivity. The only time when you were "allowed an opportunity to deserve them, was the "time when your pupils were the most refractory and 'perverse. The honours you expect in my court are

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proportioned to the difficulty of a good undertaking. "May you, hereafter, partake them, in reward of your more vigorous conduct: For the present, you are little entitled to any recompense from me. As to

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your pupils, I observe, they have passed sentence 66 upon themselves."

AT this instant of time the bell rung for supper, and

awaked

awaked me: I found the gardener by my side, prepared to plant a parcel of trees; and that I had slumbered away the hours, in which I should have given him suitable directions.

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UNCONNECTED THOUGHTS ON

GARDENING.

ARDENING may be divided into three species kitchen - gardening - parterregardening and landscape, or picturesque

gardening: which latter is the subject intended in the following pages-It consists in pleasing the imagination by scenes of grandeur, beauty, or variety. Convenience merely has no share here, any farther than as it pleases the imagination,

PERHAPS the division of the pleasures of imagination, according as they are struck by the great, the various, and the beautiful, may be accurate enough for my present purpose: why each of them affects us with pleasure may be traced in other authors. See Burke, Hutchinson, Gerard, the theory of agreeable sensations, &c.*

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* Garden-scenes may perhaps be divided into the sublime,

THERE seem however to be some objects, which afford a pleasure not reducible to either of the foregoing heads. A ruin, for instance, may be neither new to us, nor majestic, nor beautiful, yet afford that pleasing melancholy which proceeds from a reflection on decayed magnificence. For this reason, an able gardener should avail himself of objects, perhaps, not very striking; if they serve to connect ideas, that convey reflections of the pleasing kind.

OBJECTS should indeed be less calculated to strike the immediate eye, than the judgment or well-formed imagination; as in painting.

IT is no objection to the pleasure of novelty, that it makes an ugly object more disagreeable. It is enough that it produces a superiority betwixt things in other respects equal. It seems, on some occasions, to go even farther. Are there not broken rocks and rugged grounds, to which we can hardly attribute either beauty

the beautiful, and the melancholy or pensive; to which last I know not but we may assign a middle place betwixt the former two, as being in some sort composed of both.-See Burke's Sublime.