SOME THOUGHTS ON BUILDING and PLANTING , TO Sir JAMES LOWTHER , Bart. OF LOWTHER-HALL . BY THE SAME . WHEN stately structures Lowther grace , Worthy the owner and the place , Fashion will not the works direct , But Reason be the Architect . Ready each beauteous order stands To execute what she commands . The Doric grave , where weight requires The Doric grave , where weight requires . ] In ea aede cum voluissent columnas collocare , non habentes symmetrias earum , & quaerentes quibus rationibus efficere possent , ut & ad onus serendum essent idoneae , & in aspectu probatam haberent venustatem : dimensi sunt virilis pedis vestigium , & cum invenissent pedem sextam partem esse altitudinis in homine , ita in columnam transtulerunt : & qua crassitudine fecerunt basin Icapi , tantum cam sexies cum capitulo in altitudinem extulerunt . Ita Dorica columna virilis corporis proportionem , & firmitatem & venustatem in aedificiis praestare coepit , Vitruv . l. iv . c. i. p. 60. ; To give his manly strength aspires ; The light Corinthian The light Corinthian , &c. ] Tertium vero , quod Corinthium dicitur , virginalis habet gracilitatis imitationem : quod virgines propter aetatis teneritatem gracilioribus membris figuratae , effectus recipiunt in ornatu venustiores . Ejus autem capituli prima inventio , &c. Ibid. , richly gay , Does all embellishments display ; Between them see Between them see , &c. ] Junoni , Dianae , Libero Patri , caeteris{que} Diis qui eadem sunt similitudine , si aedes Ionieae construerentur , habita erit ratio mediocritatis , quod & ab severo more Doricorum & à teneritate Corinthiorum , temperabitur earum institutio proprietatis . Ibid. , with matron air , The Ionic The Ionic , &c. ] Item postea Dianae constituere aedem quaerentes , hovi generis speciem , iisdem vestigiis ad muliebrem transtulerunt gracilitatem : & fecerunt primum columnae crassitudinem altitudinis octava parte : ut haberent speciem excelsiorem , basi spiram supposuerunt pro calceo , capitulo volutas , uti capillamento concrispatos cincinnos praependentes dextra ac sinistra collocaverunt , & cymatiis & encarpis pro crinibus dispositis , srontes ornaverunt : trunco{que} toto strias , uti stolarum rugas , matronali more dimiserunt . Ibid. , delicately fair ! These their abundant aid will lend To answer every structure's end . To Building can a mode belong But gay , or delicate , or strong ? Why search we then for orders new , Rich in these all-comprising few , But that the standard rules of Greece Disdain to humour wild caprice ? They Fancy's wanton freaks controul , In every part consult the whole , Teach Art to dress , and not disguise , Seek lasting fame , not short surprise , And all adornings to produce From real or from seeming use — From real or from seeming use , ] — quemadmodum mutuli cantheriorum projecturae serunt imaginem , sie in Ionicis denticuli ex projecturis asserum habent imitationem . Itaque in Graecis operibus nemo sub mutulo denticulos constituit : non enim possunt subtus cantherios asseres esse . Quod ergo supra cantherios & templa in veritate debet esse collacatum , id in imaginibus , si infra constitutum fuerit , mendosam habebit operis rationem ; &c. , The place's genius to revere , And , as he bids , the structure rear . Smiles he o'er fragrant Flora's bloom ? Ne'er shock him with a grotto's gloom . Nor with smooth slender columns mock His roughness in the rugged rock . Nor by trim steps hand gently down , ( Like dainty dames in formal town ) The nimble Naiades , who bound O'er native rocks with sprightly sound . Nor roving Dryades confine Precisely to a single line , Strait , circular , or serpentine . All forms arise at nature's call , And use can beauty give to all . None e'er disgust the judging mind , When vary'd well , or well combin'd . This Lowther's noble planter knew , And kept it in his constant view . So sweetly wild his woods are strown , Nature mistakes them for her own , Yet all to proper soil and site So suited , doubly they delight . While tender plants in vales repose , Where the mild zephyr only blows , Embattled firs bleak hills adorn , Under whose safeguard smiles the corn . Who builds or plants , this rule should know , From truth From truth , &c. ] — quod non potest in veritate fieri , id non putaverunt in imaginibus factum , posse certam rationem habere . Omnia enim certa proprictate , & à veris naturae deductis moribus , traduxerunt in operum perfectiones : & ea probaverunt , quorum explicationes in disputationibus rationem possunt habere veritatis . Vitruv . lib. iv . c. ii . p. 67. edit. de Laet . and use — and use , &c. ] See the idea of beauty explained by the great Dr. Berkley in the Minute Philosopher , dial . iii . sect. viii , ix . edit. 3 , 1752. all beauties flow .