Richard Grenville, late Earl Temple; William Pitt, late Earl of Chatham; and George Lyttelton, late Lord Lyttelton. (. The Roof is painted and ornamented in a very gay THE PEBBLE ALCOVE is a little Grotto ornamented with Pebbles; in which likewife his Lordship's Arms are curiously wrought on the back Wall. CONGREVE'S MONUMENT; the Embellishments) of which are emblematical of the Poet's Comic Genius. On the top is placed a Monkey viewing himself in a Mirror, with this Infcription: Vitæ imitatio, That is," Comedy is the Imitation of Life, and the Mirror of Fashion.” The POET'S EFFIGLES lie in a careless Pofture on one fide, and on the other is placed this Epitaph: Ingenio Acri, faceto, expolito, Urbanis, candidis, facillimis Hoc Qualecunque defiderii fui Pofuit Co BH AM. That is, "To the piercing, facetious, and refined Genius; to the polifhed, candid, and unaffected Manners of WILLIAM CONGREVE, COBHAM has erected this poor Confolation and Monument of his Lofs." The Gardens contain three hundred and forty acres. |