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bread i-ather than liis character (an evil attending 

 the art which can never be removed), chooses such 

 an exhibition of hght and shade as is the most 

 easy to himself, and may likewise be most pleasing 

 to the generality of his undistinguishing em- 

 ployers. Hence we have so great a number of 

 glaring landscapes, which depend on nothing but 

 the beauty and colouring of a few particular 

 objects, without any attention to those grand 

 effects which make landscape, by many degrees, 

 the most sublime and interesting. 



It is, perhaps, one of the great errors in paint- 

 ing (as, indeed, it is in literary, as well as in pic- 

 turesque composition) to be more attentive to the 

 finishing of parts than to the production of a 

 luhole. Whereas the master's great care should 

 be, first to contrive a whole, and then to adapt the 

 parts, as artificially as he can. I speak of ima- 

 ginary landscape ; when he paints a particular 

 view his management must be just the reverse. 

 He has the parts given him, and he must form 

 them into a whole as he can, and this is often 

 difficult. 



Nothing, however, tends so much to produce a 

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