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It may be said with much truth, that the 

 reformation of public taste in real land- 

 scape, niortt immediately belonijs to the 

 higher landscape painters, among whom 

 the higher painters of every kind may gene- 

 rally be included ; but there are circum- 

 stances, which are likely to prevent them 

 from succeeding in a task for which they 

 are so well quahfied. In the first place 

 they have few opportunities of giving their 

 opinion, being seldom employed in im- 

 proved places ; certainly not in represent- 

 ing the improved parts : for there is a 

 strong repugnance, of which the owners 

 themselves are aware, in him who has stu- 

 died Titian, Claude, and Poussin, and the 

 style of art and of nature that they had 

 studied, to copy the clumps, the naked 

 canals, and no less naked buildings of Mr, 

 Brown. Besides, if they are employed at 

 all, it is after all the alterations have been 

 made; whereas the architect frequently be- 

 gins his work before, or at the same time 

 with the improver. The painter also, might 

 be suspected of sacrificing too much to the 

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