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XVI. And lastly, the seasons, and times 

 of day, which are very different to the 

 gardener and the painter : the noontide 

 hour has its charms, though the shadows 

 are neither long nor broad, and none but 

 a painter or a sportsman will prefer the 

 sear and yellow leaves of autumn to the 

 fragrant blossoms and reviving delights 

 of spring, " the youth of the year." 



On the first perusal of *' Mr. Knight's Conclusion, 

 Enquiry into the Principles of Taste," I 

 was astonished to discover so much con- 

 ceded to my opinion, since his first work 

 appeared; or rather, that my opinions 

 had been adopted in all his allusions to 

 Landscape Gardening: but on a closer 

 examination it appeared that no notice 

 whatever was taken of this change in the 

 author's sentiments since he wrote the 

 "Landscape," or of the works which 

 had probably caused this revolution: on 

 the contrary, the same indignation pre- 

 vails against the art and its professors, 

 without any exception, or any acknoM'- 

 ledgment of coincidence in opinion. — 

 Under such circumstances, as I had no- 



