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I am awai'e of the common objection Deceptions 



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to all efforts that may be deemed decep- allowable. 

 tions; but it is the business of taste in 

 every polite art to avail itself of strata- 

 gems, by which the imagination may be 

 deceived : and thus also in Landscape 

 Gardening, many things may be deemed 

 (leceptio?is, by which we try to conceal the 

 agency of art. We plant the hills to make Deceptions 



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them appear higher; we sink the fences necessary. 

 to make the lawns appear larger; we 

 open the banks of a brook to make it ap- 

 pear a river, or stop its current to make 

 an expanse of water: and we disguise 

 terminations to give appearance of con- 

 tinuity; nor is the imagination so fasti- 

 dious as to reject well supported decep- 

 tions, even after the want of reality is 

 discovered. Thus when we are interested 

 by a dramatic performance, and our feel- 

 ings powerfully agitated, we do not en- 

 quire into the truth of what causes our 

 mirth or sorrow; on the contrary, w^e 

 forget that we see a Garrick or a Siddons, 

 and join in the griefs of a Belvidere or a 

 Beverley, though we know that no such 



