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iunce of composition, and occasional ad- 

 vantaq:e from rouo-bness and decav, the 

 effect of time and age. 



VI. Intricacy. A word frecjuently 

 used in my red books, wbicli Mr. Price 

 bas very correctly defined to be that dis- 

 " position of objects, wbicb, by a partial 

 " and uncertain concealment, excites and 

 " nourishes curiosity." 



VII. Simplicity, or that disposition of 

 objects, which, without exposing all of 

 them equally to view at once, may lead 

 the eye to each by an easy gradation, 

 without flutter, confusion, or perplexity. 



VIII. Variety. This may be gratified 

 by natural landscape, in a thousand ways 

 that painting cannot imitate; since it is 

 observed of the best painter's works, that 

 there is a sameness in their compositions, 

 and even their trees are all of one general 

 kind, while the variety of nature's pro- 

 ductions is endless, and ought to be duly 

 studied. 



IX. Novelty. Although a ^reat source 

 of pleasure, this is the most difficult and 

 most dangerous for an artist to attempt; 



