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racier, the piclurefque is generally mixed 

 with the beautiful, and that it is for want 

 of obferving how nature has blended 

 them that improvers have fallen into fo 

 much tamenefs and infipidity.* Now you 

 have, throughout your Letter, confidered 

 the piclurefque as to be applied in its 

 rougheft ftate; as a harm difcord without 

 being prepared, or refolved — a dofe of 

 crude antimony without any corrective — 

 all by way of deterring your patients from 

 mixing fuch fharp, ftimulating ingredients 

 with the foft emollients of Mr. Brown. It 

 is alfo curious to obferve, how you have 

 avoided mentioning whatever might lead 

 the imagination towards piclurefque fcenes, 

 left your readers fhould be feduced by the 

 bare recital of them : you therefore, after 

 having, by a fort of proxy, made choice 

 of unmixed beauty (and what that beauty 

 is {hall afterwards be confidered) have re-* 



- Effay oo the Pitturefque, page 155. 



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