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gracefiil JîemSt removed and extended the perfpeBîve by delu- 

 Jîvc comparifon. 



Thus the pencU of bis imagination he/ïoiued ail the arts 

 ef landfcape on the fcenes he handled, The great principles 

 on 'whicb he worked were perfpeBive, and light and fiade. 

 Groupes of trees broke too uniform or too exte^ijîve a lawn^ 

 evergreens and woods ivere oppofed to the glare of the cham- 

 paiuy and where the view was lefs fortunate, or fo miich 

 expofed as to be beheld at once, he blotted ont fonie parts 

 by thick flmdeSi to divide it înto variety, or to make the 

 richejl fcene more enchanting by referving it to a farther 

 advance of the fpeBators Jîeps, Thiis, feleBing favourite 

 objeBs, and veiling deformities by fcreens of plantation ; fo?ne- 

 times allowing the riidejl wajie to add its foil to the richeft 

 théâtre, he realifed the compoftio?îs of the greatejî rnafers in 

 painting. Where ohjeSls were wanting to animate his hori- 

 zon, his tajle as an architedl could bejîow immédiate termi- 

 nât ion, His buildings, his feats, his temples, were more 

 the Works of his pencil than of his compajjes, We owe the 

 reftoration of Greece and the diffufwn of archite^ure to his 

 Jkill in landfcape. 



But of ail the beautles he added to the face of this beau- 

 tiful cou?itry, none furpajfed his inanagement of water» Adieu 



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