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scape. Claude, probably, was sensible of 

 this, and must have felt that by confiuiug 

 himself chiefly to morninc: and evcninsr 

 lights, he precluded himself irom a number 

 of effects, of a singular and striking kind ; 

 but which did not accord with his concep- 

 tions of beauty. It was therefore very na- 

 tural, that on account of this voluntary 

 exclusion, he should seek for every vaiiety 

 which would accord with such conceptions; 

 and nothing could answer his purpose so 

 well, as the ruins he saw around him. They 

 exhibit great diversity of form, and the/ 

 both give and recal ideas of beauty and 

 magnificence; and he found that, by keep- 

 ing them in the second ground, by mixing 

 them with foliaoje, and surroundino; tlicni 

 with his atmosphere and mild light and 

 shadow, their particular abruptness would 

 vanish, their general variety only remain, 



Caspar, the rival and contemporary of 

 Claude, like him lived at Rome ; and he 

 who gave such masterly representations of 

 all that is broken in ground, in branches, 

 and foliage, could not be insensible to simi- 



