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excellent study for an architect, to niake 

 drawings of Blenheim,* etideavoiiring to 

 preserve the principle of light and shadow, 

 the character of the architectural fore- 

 ground, the eifect of the raised decoration^ 

 on the roof, and the general grandeur and 

 variet}^ of the whole; but trying at the same 

 time to give more lightness and purity of 

 Style to that whole, more elegance and con« 

 graity to the parts; observing as he pro- 

 ceeded, how far he found it necessary to sa-r 

 orifice purity, lightness, elegance, and unity 

 of style, in order to preserve those effects 

 which Vanbrugh has produced. Let him 

 too, if he likewise understand landscape, 

 substitute any fine house of the same style 

 of architecture with those I lately mention^ 

 ed, in the room of Blenheim. Let him do 

 it where the view first opens, at the entrance 

 from Woodstock ; and also in other views, 

 where the portico, and the best parts of such 



* If 1 mention J^lenheim singly, it is, that I have had 

 constant opportunities of examining it, which i, unluckily, 

 have not enjoyed, with respect to the no less magnificent 

 /abric of Castle Howard. 



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