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and play of that drapery must depend on 

 what was beneath, and that its folds were 

 not meant to hide, but to indicate and 

 adorn the forms which they covered. 



The whole of this presents the idea of 

 ground-working, in a new, and a much 

 higher point of view; so perfectly new, that 

 I believe nothing of the kind has hitherto 

 been attempted, or even thought of. The 

 difficulty is in proportion to the variety of 

 points from which each part (as being part 

 of a composition) must be considered. Mr. 

 Brown never thought of picturesque com- 

 position ; and where the parts, as in his 

 banks, are all alike both in form and co- 

 lour, and without any break, there can be 

 no difficulty with regard to their connec- 

 tion with each other, however ill they may 

 accord with the rest of the landscape. 

 Monotony is, indeed, a very certain re- 

 medy against particular defects ; but it 

 may truly be said, that such a remedy is 

 worse than almost any disease. 



If then an improver were determined to 

 avoid such unnatural monotony, to copy 



