





FRAGMENT XI. 



BEAUDESERT. 



EXTRACT FROM THE RED BOOK OF BEAUDESERT. 





CHARACTER AND 



N 



. 



7 o lay down a rational plan for the improvement of any place, 

 we must begin by considering its Character and Situation. 



The very name of this place should have some influence on 

 llie mode of treating it. Great command of territory would of 



itself suirffest, that 



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Character of Greatness, insomuc 



as re- 



lates to Art, should accord with that degree of vastness, which 

 i> the prerogative of Nature only : at the same time there is no 

 error so common as the mistaking greatness of dimensions for 

 greatness of character 

 than in the Pictures of th 

 General 



d this is no where better exemplified 

 5 date of Louis XIV, when a 



was represented 

 jack boots : the truth is. 



a great wi 



with 



that 



a great 

 great pair of 



compari-on 



it 



Th 



fact it 



great and small are 



ly so by 



been 



must be on a large scale, to correspond 



its (I 



is the more necessary to establish 



every thing at Beaudesert 



the large scale of 



ted, that 



th 



great than hug 



while I contend, that every thing should be rather 



Al 



s~ massive pile, 



ai*2'e 



worthy of the rank and antiquity of 



ito possessors, has been placed on the verge of the forest, 



a royal 



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