302 Gilpin's foeest scenery. 



sions of beauty by tlieir effect upon tlie imagination. A 

 painter wlio endeavoured to give in detail what lay 

 beyond the limits of the foreground, would be more than 

 puerile, or pedantic. He should endeavour to render that 

 part of the scene just as Nature shows it from the point 

 of view which he selects. — Ed. 



