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varied fliapes, to more ornamented fcenes. 

 You were therefore ftudying the effect of 

 neglect and accident, and it is a ftudy, 

 which, joined to that of the felections 

 which painters have made of thofe effects, 

 every profeflbr of your art fhould perpe- 

 tually renew; not merely in forefls, but 

 univerfally wherever they occur. He 

 fhould, by the ftudy of pictures, accuftom 

 his eye to catch them, and to fix them in 

 his memory as fources of natural, unaf- 

 fected variety; or he will certainly fall 

 into the wretched famenefs of him, whom 

 you have dignified with the title of " that 

 44 great felf-taught matter," and whole 

 works (if he was felf-taught) fully juftify 

 the Italian proverb.* 



I cannot quit the fhort note of your's, 

 which has occafioned lb large a comment, 



* Chi s'infegna ha un pazzo per maeftro. Vide Eflay on 

 the Piclurefcjue, page 4. 



without 



