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SECTION II. 



BEAUTIES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE ART. 



IJapacities of the art. The beauties of the ancient style. The modern style. The Beauti 

 ful and the Picturesque: their distinctive characteristics. Illustrations drawn from 

 Nature and Painting. Nature and principles of Landscape Gardening as an Imitative 

 art. Distinction between the Beautiful and Picturesque. The principles of Unity 

 Harmony, and Variety. 



" Here Nature in her unaffected dresse, 

 Plaited with vallies and imbost with hills, 

 Enchast with silver streams, and fringed with woods 



Sits lovely." — 



Chamberlatne, 



" II est des soins plus doux, un art plus enchanteur. 

 C'est peu de charmer I'ceil, il faut parler au ccEur. 

 Avez-vous done connu ces rapports invisibles, 

 Des corps inanimes et des etres sensibles? 

 Avez-vous entendu des eaux, des pres, des bois. 

 La muette eloquence et la secrete voix 1 

 Rendez-nous ces effets." Les Jardins, Book I. 



E F O R E we proceed to a detailed and 

 more practical consideration of the subject, 

 let us occupy ourselves for a moment with 

 the consideration of the different results 

 which are to be sought after, or, in other 

 ^' "^^ words, what kinds of beauty we may hope to 

 produce by Landscape Gardening. To attempt the smallest 

 work in any art, without knowing either the capacities of 



