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Excerpt from The English Garden: A Poem, in Four Books
The one furnifhed better means of illuftrating myz fubjeé't, and the Other of defining it; the former admitted thofe ornaments only which refulted from lively imagery and figurative diction; the latter feemed rather to require the feafoning of wit and fatire, this, 'there fore, appeared bel't calculated to expofe falfe tafie, and that to elucidate the true. But falfe tafle, on this fubjeét, had been fo in imitably ridic'uled by Mr. Pope, in his Epame to Lord Burlington, that it feemed to preclude all other authors (at lea'¿: it pre cluded me) from touching it after him; and therefore, as he had left much unfaid on that part of the art on which it was my pur pofe principally to enlarge, I thought the didactic method not only more Open but more proper for my attempt. This matter Once determined, Idid not hefitate as to my choice between blank verfe and thyme; be gaufe it clearly appeared, that numbers'~of the molt varied kind were molt proper ro' illufirate viii preface.
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