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with hoar-froft, have fometimes if not a 

 pifturefque at leaft an uncommon effect, 

 v/hen they appear againft a lurid cloud > 

 efpecially when the fun ihines flrongly upon 

 them. 



But altho many appearances in winter are 

 beautiful and amufing; and fome of them 

 even pi6lurefque ; yet the judicious painter 

 will rarely introduce them in landfcape ; 

 becaufe he has choice of more beautiful effects, 

 when nature appears dreffed to more advan- 

 tage. 



Picturefque pleafure arifes from two fources 

 from the beauty^ and combination of the objetfs 

 reprefented; and from the exaStnefs of the 

 reprefentation, Thus we are pleafed with the 

 picture of a noble landfcape, the compofition 

 of which is juft, and the lights well-difpofed : 

 and yet a fort of pleafure arifes from feeing 

 a bright table, a deal-board, or a ramer of 

 bacon naturally reprefented*. But while the 



former 



* Deceptions of this kind ufed frequently to be hung up in 

 the exhibition-room in London, among the works of capital 

 artifts, where indeed they were unworthy of a place. 



Since this pafTage was written, I have met with the following 

 excellent remark in one of Sir Jofhua Reynolds' notes on Mr. 



T 2 Mafon's 



