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fun-fhine, it never fails to pleafe. But it 

 muft receive it's black hue from clearnefs. 

 Where a pool is the principal part of a little 

 landfcape, the leaft muddinefs, or ftain from 

 clay, or filth of any kind, robs it of it's 

 beauty. 



-The green mantle of the {landing pool, 



as Shakefpeare calls it, hurts the eye exceedingly 

 from it's ambiguous texture. It poiTeiles nei- 

 ther the character of land, nor of water. 



Nor is the cottage, which is often found in 

 the woody fcenes of the foreft, a circumftance 

 without it's efFecl:. In nature at leaft it 

 pleafes : not only as the embellishment of a 

 fcene ; but as it fhews us a dwelling, where 

 happinefs may refide, unfupported by wealth 

 as it fhews us a refource, where we may ftill 

 continue to enjoy peace, tho we fhould be 

 deprived of all the favours of fortune. Yet 

 on canvas, where the foreft-view is formally 

 introduced, the cottage is an improper deco- 

 ration. In nature, the eye, fated with a 

 profulion of rich foreft-fcenes, often feizes 

 even the humbleft circumftance as an objecl: of 

 relief. But when a foreft- fcene is fimply, and 

 formally introduced, it ought to appear, like 



itfelf, 



