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treafured in a cabinet. Give the other the 

 coftHefl: materials. All is a wafte of time, 

 of labour, and expence. Add colours — they 

 only make his deformities more glaring. 



True tafte, in the firft place, whether in 

 nature, or on canvas, makes not a fmgle ftroke, 

 till the general defign is laid out, with which, 

 in fome part or other, every effort coincides. 

 The artift may work at his picture in this 

 part or the other -, but if his defign, and 

 compofition are fixed, every effort is gradually 

 growing into a whole. Whereas he who 

 works without tafte, feldom has any idea of 

 a whole. He tacks one part to another, as 

 his mifguided fancy fuggefts : or, if he has 

 any plan, it is fomething as unnatural, as 

 the parts which compofe it, are abfurd. 

 The deeper his pocket therefore, and the 

 wider his fcale, his errors are more ap- 

 parent. 



To an injudicious perfon, or one who 

 delights in temples, and Chinefe bridges, very 

 little would appear executed in the fcenes I 

 have defcribed at Exbury. There is fcarce 

 a gravel- walk made : no pavilion raifed -, nor 

 even a white-feat fixed. And yet in fadt, 

 more is done, than if all thefe decorations, 



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