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A polifhed fcene, like this, in the midfl: 

 of a foreft, addreiles us with the air of 

 novelty; and when natural, as this is, cannot 

 fail to pleafe. It will not however bear a 

 comparifon with the wild fcenes of the foreft. 

 We enter them again with pleafure ; and fpeak 

 of them as we do of the works of a great 

 literary genius, which contain greater beau- 

 ties, tho perhaps blended with greater defe^ls, 

 than the laboured works of a lefs exalted, tho 

 more corredt writer. Every thing in thefe 

 adorned fcenes, may be perfe6lly corredt — 

 nothing may offend ; yet we feek in vain for 

 thofe ftrokes of genius, which roufe the imagi- 

 nation, and are fo frequently found among the 

 wild fcenes of the foreft. Some things how- 

 ever at Paultons did offend , particularly an 

 attempt to improve a little foreft-ftream (by 

 forming a head) into a river. Attempts of 

 this kind feldom anfwer : and the misfortune 

 here is the more glaring, as a great, white, 

 Chinefe bridge ftands every where in fight to 

 reminds us of it. We wifli for limple orna- 

 ments on all occafions — ornaments which the 

 eye is not obliged to notice. Here the ornament 

 was particularly out of place ; as it was not 



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