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In all this, convenience and propriety are not the objects of 

 confideration, though not to be neglected - - - 49 



The beft landfcape-painters would be the bell landfcape- 

 gardeners, were they to turn their minds to the practical 

 part; confequently, a ftudy of their works the moftufeful 

 ftudy to an improver - - - - - - 5 1 



Mr. R. has endeavoured to confine his readers' ideas to mere 

 garden fcenes, and to perfuade them that Mr. P. willies 

 that every thing fhould be facrificed to picturefque effect 52 



That notion refuted by references to the Effay on the Pic- 

 turefque - - - - - - - -53 



Mr. R.'s illuftration of a garden fcene, by a didactic poem, 

 examined - --54 



Alfo his quere, whether the painter's landfcape is indifpenfible 

 to gardening ? — as likewife the meaning of both thofe terms 58 



Inftead of the painter's landfcape, Mr. R. ought, in candour, 

 to have put a ftudy of the principles of painting. All painting 

 not rough — inftances of too great fmoothnefs - - 59 



Such a painter as Van Huyfum would be a much better 

 judge of the merits and defefts of the moft dreffed fcene 

 — of a mere flower-garden — than a gardener; and from 

 the general principles of the art, his judgment and that 

 of the wildeft painter — even of S. Rofa — would probably 

 agree - 61 



The more the fcene was extended, the more it would belong 

 {o the painter, and the lefs to the gardener. Mr. R. has 

 addreffed himfelf to the fears of his employers, and alarm- 

 ed them for their health in picturefque fcenes - - - 63 



Dirt and rubbifh not picturefque, as fuch - - - 65 



Many plealing fcenes which cannot be painted— that notion, 

 and the argument Mr. R. has drawn from it, examined -- 66 



Mr. P. had been warned, that the Brownifts in general would 

 take advantage of his diftinction, and give up the pictu- 

 refque, and keep to beauty only; the advantage it would 

 be of to him, fhould they do f o ; his furprife and regret 

 that Mr. R. fhould have done what nearly amounts to it - 70 



Before 



