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"Dear Sirio that art the very eye of islands and 

 peninsulas that lie deeply embossed in calm inland 

 lakes!" 



The example I have in mind, a painting of Menand, 

 shows how a picture of a lake of this kind among wooded 

 hills should be constructed. The artist evidently knew 

 and loved his type. Moreover, this picture forms an 

 excellent example of how the presence of water of a 

 certain sort may make with most charming effect the 

 very eye of the landscape. 



Writers on landscape gardening in the eighteenth 

 century dwell much on the value of the sensations 

 produced by various kinds of landscape gardening. 



"Gardening besides the emotions of beauty by 

 means of regularity, order, proportion, colour, and 

 utility, can raise emotions of grandeur, of sweetness, 

 of gaiety, melancholy, wildness, and even of surprise 

 or wonder. In gardening as well as in architecture, 

 simplicity ought to be the governing taste. Profuse 

 ornament hath no better effect than to confuse the 

 eye and to prevent the object from making an im- 

 pression as one entire whole. A third idea of a 

 garden approaching perfection is of objects assem- 

 bled together in order to produce not only an emotion 

 of beauty essential to gardens of every kind, but also 

 some other particular emotion, grandeur, for example, 

 gaiety, or any other of those above mentioned." r 



1 Henry Home, Lord Kames. 



