IV. Ye practis'd nymphs, who form your charms Such tricks she leaves to Art and You. V. Secure of native powers to please, My FLAVIA SCOrns all mean pretence; Her form is elegance and ease, Her soul is truth and innocence; And these, O heartfelt extasy! She gives to Honour, Love, and Me. July 11, 1765. THE ENGLISH GARDEN: POEM. IN FOUR BOOKS. TO WHICH ARE ADDED A COMMENTARY AND NOTES, BY W. BURGH, ESQ. LL. D. A Garden is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection. VERULAM. |