340 Gilpin's forest scenery. 



them. The advantage of excited, over-represented 

 ideas is very great, inasmuch as they are, in some 

 degree, the reader's own production, and are sus- 

 ceptible of those modifications which make them 

 pecuharly acceptable to the mind in which they 

 are raised. Whereas the others, being confined 

 within a distinct and unalterable outHne, admit of 

 none of the modifications which flatter the par- 

 ticular taste of the spectator, but must make their 

 way by their own intrinsic force. 



