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the general hue of his landscape. Yet ■ still he 

 win be cautious how he spreads e-s'en the prevail- 

 ing tint too strongly. Much error has arisen 

 from this source ; and some painters, under the 

 idea of harmonizing, have given us blue and 

 purple pictures. I know not whether Poussin 

 himself did not sometimes fall into this fault. . 

 Nature's veil is always pure and transparent ; 

 yet, though in itself hardly discoverable, it will 

 still give its kindred tinge to the features which 

 are seen through it. 



We have now considered mcidental beauty as 

 arising from the colder modifications of the air. 

 "We use the word colder not in a physical, 

 but in a picturesque sense, as productive only of 

 sober colouring, unattended with any force of 

 effect. We come now to a more illustrious family 

 of tints — the offspring of the sun. These are 

 fertile sources of incidental beauty among the 

 woods of the forest. The characteristic of them 

 is strong effect. Let us first examine the incident 

 of a rising snn. 



The first dawn of day exhibits a beautiful 

 obscurity. When the east begins just to brighten 



