Thy noontide shadows, and thy evening breeze!
His image thy forsaken bowers restore;
Thy walks and airy prospects charm no more;
No more the summer in thy glooms allay’d
Thy evening breezes, and thy noonday shade.
Tickell, on the death of Addison.
And again in his Kensington Garden:—
Where now the skies high Holland House invades
And short-lived Warwick sadden’d all the shades.
Johnson repeats with great indignation Mandeville’s observation upon Addison. It was that he appeared to him like a parson in a tye wig: a laughable and, I daresay, a true remark.