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the same unnatural, unmeaning look, as the 

 eye which painters have placed in the 

 middle of the Cyclops' forehead ; and that 

 is one of the few points on which the judg- 

 ment of painters seems to me to be nearly 

 on a level with that of gardeners : they have 

 an excuse, however, which I believe the 

 latter could never allege — that of having 

 been misled by the poets. 



As the greatest part of the supposed im- 

 provements in modern gardening, particu- 

 larly with respect to water, is founded *on 

 the principle of Howing lines and easy curves, 

 I Avill examine in what points that principle 

 ought to be modified ; and in what cases, 

 for want of such modifications, it may coun- 

 teract its own purposes. Hogarth, as I have 

 observed in a former part, has shewn the 

 reason why they are beautiful ; namely, "that 

 " they lead the eye a kind of wanton chase:'* 

 and Mr. Burke, with his usual happiness, 

 has farther illustrated the same idea.* It 



* Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful, page 2l6, et 

 passim. 



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