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as fuch, and confined to the garden only ; 

 but thefe new ones have no limits, and are 

 not only cried up as fpecimens of pure, 

 genuine nature, but of nature refined and 

 embellifhed ; from which the painter, as 

 well as the gardener, may learn to correct 

 and enlarge his ideas and his practice. 



As I have attributed much of the defe6l 

 in Mr. Brown's fyftem to his not having 

 attended to the effects which had been 

 produced by accident, and to his having, 

 in a great degree, prevented its future 

 operation in his own works — as this is in 

 my opinion a point of no little confe- 

 quence, though (as you have fhewn) ex- 

 tremely open to mifreprefentation ; and as 

 it is a point on which I have touched but 

 [lightly in my Eflay,. I will beg leave to 

 dwell upon it a little longer. 



Every man will allow that painters and 

 improvers ought to ftudy nature, and na- 

 ture in contradiftinction to art. Are then 



all 



