 We had an excellent dinner nicely served , and then went over directly into the garden – a piece of irregular ground sloping down to the Thames , very well laid out , and planted for shade and shelter ; and an opening to the river which appears beautiful from that spot , and from Shakespeare 's Temple at the end of the Improvement , where we drank tea , and where there is a very fine statue of Shakespeare in white marble , and a great chair with a large carved frame , that was Shakespeare 's own chair , made for him on some particular occasion , with a medallion fixed in the back . Many were the relics we saw of the favourite poet . At six o 'clock Lady Weymouth 's fine group of children walked into the garden , which added to the agreeableness of the scene . 
