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Excerpt from An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight, Comptroller General of His Majesty's Works, and Author of a Late Dissertation on Oriental Gardening: Enriched With Explanatory Notes, Chiefly Extracted From That Elaborate Performance
But though the images be borrowed, the author claims fome fmall merit from his application of them. Sir Wil liam fays too modefily, that European artifis mufi not hope to rival Oriental 'fplendor. 'the poet fhews, that European artifis may ea'fi'l'y rival it; and, that Richmond gardens, with only the addition of a ~new bridge to join them to Brentford, may be, new modelled, perfectly d laz' Cbimz's. He exhorts his Knight to undertake the glorious tafk, and leaves no-caufe to doubt, but that, under the aufpicious patronage he now fo juf'tly enjoys, added to the, mom} vote of thofe, who furnifh ways and means, the royal.
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