( 225 y 



But in the minute exhibitions of the convex- 

 mirror, compofitioji, fof-mSy and colours are 

 brought clofer together j and the eye examines 

 the general effeSl^ the forms of the objeSls, and 

 the beauty of the tints, in one complex view. 

 As the colours too are the very colours of 

 nature, and equally well harmonized, they 

 are the more brilliant, as they are the more 

 condenfed. 



In a chaife particularly the exhibitions of 

 the convex-mirror are amufmg. We are 

 rapidly carried from one objedl to another. A 

 fucceffion of high-coloured piftures is conti- 

 nually gliding before the eye. They are like 

 the vifions of the imagination ; or the bril- 

 liant landfcapes of a dream. Forms, and 

 colours in brighteft array, fleet before us ; 

 and if the tranfient glance of a good compo- 

 lition Piappen to unite with them, we fhould 

 give any price to fix and appropriate the 

 fcene*. 



* " I got to the parfonage a little before fun-fet ; and faw 

 in my glafs, a pifture, that if I could tranfmit to you, and 

 fix, in all the foftuefs of it's living colours, would fairly fell 

 for a thonfand pounds," Gray's niemoirs, page 360. 



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