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But in the minute exhibitions of the convex- 

 mirror, compofition^ forms, and colours are 

 brought clofer together ; and the eye examines 

 the general effett, the forms of the objefts^ and 

 the beauty of the finfs, in one complex view. 

 As the colours too are the very colours of 

 nature, and equally well harmonized, they 

 are the more brilliant, as they are the more 

 condenfed. 



In a chaife particularly the exhibitions of 

 the convex-mirror are amufmg. We are 

 rapidly carried from one object to another. A 

 fucceflion of high-coloured pictures is conti- 

 nually gliding before the eye. They are like 

 the vifions of the imagination , or the bril- 

 liant landfcapes of a dream. Forms, and 

 colours in brightefl array, fleet before us j 

 and if the tranfient glance of a good compo- 

 fition happen to unite with them, we fhould ' 

 give any price to fix and appropriate the 

 fcene *. 



* " I got to the parfonage a little before fun-fet ; and faw 

 in my glafs, a picture, that if I could tranfmit to you, and fix, 

 in all the foftnefs of it's living colours, would fairly fell for a 

 thoufand pounds." Gray's Memoirs, page 360. 



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