The Tatler (Volume 3) - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1804. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... N° 188. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1710. What clime, what region, so remote and strange, Where these our labours are not known ? R. WYNNE. From my own Apartment, June 21. I Was this morning looking over my letters, that I have lately received from my several correspondents; some of which, referring to my late papers, I have laid aside, with an intent to give my reader a sight of them. The first criticises upon my green-house, and is as follows: ' MR. BICKERSTAFF, South Wales, June 7. * This letter comes to you from my orangery, which I intend to reform as much as I can, according to your ingenious model; and shall only beg of you to communicate to me your secret of preserving grassplots in a covered room1; for in the climate where my country-seat lies, they require rain and dews as .well as sun and fresh air, and cannot live upon such fine food as your " sifted weather." 1 must likewise desire you to write over your green-house the following motto: " Hie ver perpetuum, ntque alienis mensibus astas." " Here vernal bloom, and summer's genial warmth, Sure regio in terris nostri non plena laboris? VIRG. JEa. i. 464. ' Instead of your " 0! quis me gelidis in vallibus Hami Sisiat, et iagenti ramorumprotegat umbra!" VIRG. Geor. ii. 488. " Some god convey me to the cooling shades Of dewy Haemus! " R. WYNNE. ' Which, under favour, is the panting of one in summer after cool shades, and not of one in winter after a summer-house. The rest of your plan is very beautiful; and that your friend, who has so well described it, may enjoy it many winters, is the hearty wish of ' His and yours unknown, &c.V This oversight of a grass-plot in my friend's greenhouse puts me in mind of a like inconsistency in a celebrated picture where Moses is represented as striking a rock, and the children ...