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chestnut, and other plants of coarser form, have 

 no great beauty. Trees also, thus covered with 

 hoar-frost, have sometimes— if not a picturesque 

 — at least an uncommon effect, when they appear 

 against a lurid cloud ; especially when the sun 

 shines strongly upon them. 



But, although many appearances in winter are 

 beautiful and amusing, and some of them even 

 picturesque, yet the judicious painter will rarely 

 introduce them in landscape, because he has choice 

 of more beautifal effects, when Nature appears 

 dressed to more advantage. 



Picturesque pleasure arises from two sources — 

 from the beauty and comhination of the objects re- 

 presented ; and from the exactness of the represent- 

 ation. Thus, we are pleased with the picture of a 

 noble landscape, the composition of which is just, 

 and the lights well-disposed ; and, yet, a sort of 

 pleasure arises from seeing a bright table, a deal- 

 board, or a rasher of bacon naturally represented.* 



* Deceptions of this kind used frequently to be hung up in 

 the exhibition room in London, among the works of capital 

 artists, where indeed they were unworthy of a place. 



Since this passage was written, I have met with the following 



