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bits of rock, or rude ftones, arching over the 

 coves beneath them ; that both thefe banks, 

 if not within view of the windows, were 

 within the circuit of the home walk : Would 

 you, by way of making the two parts of the 

 fame character, and the whole more ftrictly 

 beautiful, deftroy thefe rough projecting 

 trees, the rude ftones, the broken ground 

 with its accompaniments, and all their varied 

 reflections in the water? Were you to hint 

 that fuch a thing were poffible, you muft 

 abdicate the firft part of your title. You 

 might fay, however, that being there you 

 would not deftroy them. But could 3^011 

 with a wifh make the whole foft and beauti- 

 ful — could you make it fo without the ex- 

 pence of new work, and the rawnefs of its 

 effe6t, and at once give it the fringe and 

 mellownefs of the other part ; would you do 

 it ? would you give up the variety and con- 

 trail of the two characters, and the relief 

 g they 



