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with hoar-froft, have fometimes if not a 

 pidlurefque at lead an uncommon effect, 

 when they appear againft a lurid cloud ; 

 efpecially when the fun mines ftrongly upon 

 them. 



But altho many appearances in winter are 

 beautiful, and amufing; and fome of them 

 even picture fque > yet the judicious painter 

 will rarely introduce them in landfcape ; 

 becaufe he has choice of more beautiful effects, 

 when nature appears drefled to more advan- 

 tage. 



Pidlurefque pleafure arifes from two fources 

 from the beauty, and combination of the objeftf 

 reprefented ; and from the exattnefs of the 

 reprefentation. Thus we are pleafed with the 

 picture of a noble landfcape, the competition 

 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 rafher 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 paflage was written, I have met with the following 



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



T a Mafon's 



