FRAGMENT X. 





ON 



GOTHIC OUTLINE 





EXTRACTED FROM THE RED BOOK OF STANAGE PARK. 



SITUATION 



EFORE 



speak of the character of Stallage Park, it will 



e 



proper to consider its situation with respect to the neighbouring 

 scenery; especially as the opposite opinions of two gentlemen* in 

 its vicinity have produced that controversy, in which I have 

 endeavoured to become a Moderator. 



When I compare the picturesque scenery of Downton Vale 

 with the meagre efforts of art, which are attributed to the 

 school of Brown, I cannot wonder at the enthusiastic abhor- 

 rence which the author of The Landscape expresses for modern 



ai 



'deni 



n 



g- 



especially as few parts 



of the kingdom present 



from Ludlow to 



more specimens of bad taste than the roa 



Worcester, in passing over which I wrote the contents of this 



small volume. And while I was writing, surrounded by plan- 





* So many years have now elapsed since the controversy betwixt Mr. Knight and 

 Mr. Price on the subject of Landscape Gardening, that it may not be improper to 

 mention, that the former gentleman published, in quarto, a Poem called The Landscape, 

 and the latter 

 and Beautiful. 



a 



ork 



on The Picturesque 



distinct from the Sublime 



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