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vhat they conceal too much of the archi- 

 tecture. And here I will allow, however 

 desirous I may be. of varying the composi- 

 tion from the house, and of softenuig too 

 open a display of synmietry, that great re- 

 spect ought to be paid to such works as 

 are deservedly ranked among the produc- 

 tions of genius, in an art of high considera- 

 tion from the remotest antiquity. When- 

 ever the improvement of the view would 

 injure the beauty or grandeur of such works, 

 or destroy that idea of connection and 

 symmetry, which^ though veiled, should 

 still be preserved, such an improvement 

 would cost too dear. But in buildings, 

 Avhere the forms and the heights are vari- 

 ed by means of paviliions, colonades, Sec. 

 there generally are places where trees might 

 be planted with great advantage to the ef- 

 fect of the building, considered as part of 

 a picture, without injury to it as a piece 

 of architecture ; and in the placing of 

 which accompaniments, the painter who 

 was conversant with architecture, and the 

 architect who had studied painting, would 



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