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SECTION II. 



BEAUTIES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE AKT. 



Capacities of the art. The beauties of the ancient style. The modern style. The Beaut!- 

 fill and the Picturesque: their distinctive characteristics. Illustrations drawn from 

 Nature and Painting. Nature and principles of Landscape Gardening as an Imitative 

 art. Distinction between the Beautiful and Picturesque. The principles of Unity 

 Harmony, and Variety. 



" Here Nature in her unaffected dresse, 

 Plaited with Tallies and imbost with hills, 

 Enchast' with silver streams, and fringed with woods 

 Sits lovely."— 



Chamberlayne. 



" II est des soins plus doux, un art plus enchanteur. 

 C'est peu de charmer I'oeil, il faut parler au cceur. 

 Avez-vous donfc connu ces rapports invisibles, 

 Des corps inanimes et des etres sensibles 1 

 Avez-vous entendu des eaux, des prds, des bois. 

 La muette lloquence et la secrete voix ? 

 Rendez-nous ces effete." Les Jardins, Booh 1. 



E F R E we proceed to a detailed and 

 more practical consideration of the subject, 

 let us occupy ourselves for a moment with 

 the consideration of the different results 

 vi'hich are to be sought after, or, in other 

 •"^ words, what kinds of beauty we may hope to 

 produce by Landscape Gardening. To attempt the smallest 

 work in any art, without knowing either tie capacities of 



