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respondent beauties and varieties might 

 have been produced. 



To give effect and variety of character to 

 foregrounds (in which hglit all the g-arden 

 near the house may l^e considered) the 

 forms, tints, and masses of stone or of 

 wood-'work, must often be opposed to those 

 of vegetation, what is artificial, to what is 

 natural ; and this, I believe, is the general 

 principle that should be attended to from 

 the palace to the cottage. A cottage, with 

 its garden pales, and perhaps some shrub, 

 or evergreen, a ba}^ or a lilac, appearing 

 through, and fruit-trees hanging over them ; 

 with its arbour of sweet-briar and honey- 

 suckle, supported by rude wood-work, or a 

 rustic porch covered with vine or ivy — is an 

 object which is pleasing to all mankind, 

 and not merely to the painter : he, indeed, 

 feels more strongly the value of their con- 

 nection, and disposition ; but deprive the cot- 

 tageof these circumstances, place it (as many 

 a modern house is placed) on mere grass 

 and unaccompanied, — will the painter otili/ 

 regret them ? what such rustic embellish- 

 ments are to the cottage, terraces, urns, 



