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your's) he would begin by examining the 

 forms and tints of "all the objects, and their 

 connection, by the principles of his art; if 

 he found the trees too crouded, and too 

 heavy, he would vary and lighten their 

 mafles in his drawing; if too fcattered, 

 connect them ; where parts were bare, he 

 would place fuch mafles or groups as he 

 thought would beft fuit the compofition. 

 If the houfe w 7 ere of a harfli colour, he 

 would make it of a more harmonizing tint; 

 if the form of it were flat and without any 

 relief, or too much in one lump, or (in the 

 oppofite extreme) with its parts too much 

 disjoined, he would give to the whole 

 ,more lightnefs, more maflivenefs, more 

 variety, or unity, as the cafe might re- 

 quire: If there were a river, or a piece of 

 water, he would make fuch alterations in 

 the fhape and the accompaniments, as 

 might have the happieft effect from the 



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