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Knight in his Landscape advocates the same cause ; and both 

 in a most masterly manner enforce their principles. These 

 principles were attacked by Repton, Wyndham, Marshall, kc. 

 and defended by Loudon and others. 



After studying the writings of the several partizans I have 

 been able to draw but one conclusion, which is, that the princi- 

 ples of Knight and Price are correct if impartially considered, 

 and have been acted vipon by the general consent of modern 

 designers ; nor can there be a greater proof of this position 

 than that in his maturer practice, Repton acted upon them him- 

 self. They differed in no one point of importance, that I have 

 been able to discover, as to what constitutes beautiful points in 

 a Landscape : of course they agreed that such should be imi- 

 tated ; and I have read not one passage in any of their writings 

 which will warrant the conclusion that if assembled together, 

 there would have been a dissentient voice to the observation of 

 Price, that regular Beauty and Utility must not be neglected in 

 the pursuit of the picturesque, for that would be opposed to the 

 dictates of common sense. It could not fail but that the 

 Avritings of men gifted with so much taste ; and the examples 

 which they gave of their respective opinions, for Repton was, 

 and Loudon is a professional designer, should secure the adop- 

 tion of a chastened style ; such was actually the case, and we 

 are now profiting by their labours. 



