Prolong the peal yet, fpite of all your clatter, The tedious chime is ftill ground, plants, and

water.

So, when fome John his dull invention racks,
To rival Boodle's dinners, or Almack's,
Three uncouth legs of mutton fhock our eyes,
Three roafted geefe, three butter'd apple-pies.

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Come then, prolific Art, and with thee bring The charms that rife from thy exhaustless spring; To Richmond come, for fee, untutor❜d Brown 55 Destroys those wonders which were once thy own. Lo, from his melon-ground the peasant slave Has rudely rush'd, and levell'd Merlin's Cave; Knock'd down the waxen Wizzard, feiz'd his wand,

Transform'd to lawn what late was Fairy land; 60 And marr'd, with impious hand, each sweet de

fign

Of Stephen Duck, and good Queen Caroline.
Hafte, bid yon livelong Terrace re-afcend,
Replace each vista, straighten every bend;

muft therefore fupply the fcantinefs of Nature." &c. &c. &c.
page 14. And again, "Our larger works are only a repeti-
tion of the fmall ones, "like the honeft Bachelor's feaft,"
which confifted in nothing but a multiplication of his own
dinner;
"three legs of mutton and turneps, three roafted
geefe, and three buttered apple-pies." Preface, p. 7.

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Shut out the Thames; fhall that ignoble thing 65
Approach the prefence of great Ocean's King?
No! let Barbaric glories feaft his eyes,
Auguft Pagodas round his palace rife,
And finish'd Richmond open to his view,
"A work to wonder at, perhaps a" Kew.

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Nor reft we here, but, at our magic call, Monkies fhall climb our trees, and lizards crawl;

Verfe 67. No! let Barbaric glories.)

So Milton.

"Where the gorgeous eaft with richeft hand

Showers on her Kings BARBARIC pearl and gold.” Verfe 72. Monkies fhall climb our trees.) "In their lofty woods, ferpents and lizards of many beautiful forts crawl upon the ground. Innumerable monkies, cats, and parrots clamber upon the trees." Page 40. "In their lakes are many iflands, fome small, fome large, amongst which are often seen stalking along, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the dromedary, oftrich, and the giant baboon." Page 66. "They keep in their inchanted fcenes, a furprising variety of monftrous birds, reptiles, and animals, which are tamed by art, and guarded by enormous dogs of Tibet and African giants, in the habits of magicians." Page 42. "Sometimes in this romantic excurfion, the paffenger finds himself in extenfive receffes, furrounded with arbours of jeffamine, vine, and rofes; where beauteous Tartarean damfels, in loofe transparent robes that flutter in the air, prefent him with rich wines, &c. and invite him to tafte the sweets of retirement, on Perfian carpets, and beds of Camufathkin down.” Page 40.

Huge dogs of Tibet bark in yonder grove, Here parrots prate, there cats make cruel love; In fome fair island will we turn to grass 75 (With the Queen's leave) her elephant and afs. Giants from Africa fhall guard the glades, Where hiss our fnakes, where sport our Tartar maids ;

Or, wanting thefe, from Charlotte Hayes we bring

Damfels alike adroit to fport and fing: 80

Now to our lawns of dalliance and delight, Join we the groves of horror and affright; This to atchieve no foreign aids we try, Thy gibbets, Bagshot! shall our wants fupply; Hounslow,

Verfe 84. Thy gibbets, Bagshot.) Their fcenes of terror are compofed of gloomy woods, &c. GIBBETS, croffes, wheels, and the whole apparatus of torture, are feen from the roads. Here too they conceal in cavities, on the fummits of the highest mountains, founderies, limekilns, and glass-works, which fend forth large volumes of flame, and continued columns of thick smoke, that give to thefe mountains the appearance of Volcanoes." P. 37. "Here the paffenger from time to time is furprized with repeated fhocks of electrical impulfe; the earth trembles under him by the power of confined air," &c. Now to produce both these effects, viz. the appearance of volcanoes and earthquakes, we have here fubftituted the occafional.

Hounflow, whofe heath fublimer terror fills, 85
Shall with her gibbets lend her powder mills.
Here too, O King of Vengeance, in thy fane,
Tremendous Wilkes fhall rattle his gold chain;
And round that fane on many a Tyburn tree,
Hang fragments dire of Newgate-history;
On this fhall H*11*d's dying speech be read,
Here B-te's confeffion, and his wooden head;
While all the minor plunderers of the age

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The R*g*ys, C*lc*ft's, Mungos, B*ds*ws there, 95
In straw-stufft effigy, fhall kick the air.
But fay, ye powers, who come when Fancy calls,
Where shall our mimic London rear her walls?

occafional explofion of a powder-mill, which (if there be not too much fimplicity in the contrivance) it is apprehended will at once answer all the purposes of lime-kilns and electrical machines, and imitate thunder and the explosion of cannon into the bargain. Page 40.

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Verfe 87. Here too, O king of Vengeance, &c.) the moft difmal receffes of the woods, are temples dedicated to the King of Vengeance, near which are placed pillars of ftone, with "pathetic defcriptions of tragical events;" and many acts of cruelty perpetrated there by outlaws and robbers." Page 37.

Verfe 88. Tremendous Wilkes.) This was written while Mr. Wilkes was Sheriff of London, and when it was to be feared he would rattle his chain a year longer as Lord Mayor,

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That Eaftern feature, Art muft next produce,
Tho' not for prefent yet for future ufe
Our fons fome flave of greatnefs may behold,
Caft in the genuine Afiatic mould :

Who of three realms fhall condefcend to know
No more than he can fpy from Windfor's brow;
For Him that bleffing of a better time, 105
The Mufe fhall deal awhile in brick and lime;
Surpass the bold A'AEAOI in defign,

And o'er the Thames fling one ftupendous line
Of marble arches, in a bridge, that cuts
From Richmond Ferry flant to Brentford Butts.110
Brentford with London's charms will we adorn ;
Brentford, the bishoprick of Parfon Horne.

Verfe 98. Where fhall our mimic London, &c.) "There is likewife in the fame garden, viz. Yven- Ming Yven, near Pekin, a fortified town, with its ports, ftreets, public fquares, temples, markets, fhops, and tribunals of justice; in fhort, with every thing that is at Pekin, only on a smaller fcale.

"In this town the emperors of China, who are too much the flaves of their greatness to appear in public, and their women, who are excluded from it by custom, are frequently diverted with the hurry and bustle of the capital, which is there reprefented, feveral times in the year, by the eunuchs of the palace." Page 32.

Verse 109. Of marble arches.) See Sir William's enormous account of Chinese bridges, too long to be here inferted. Fage 53.

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