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fure-ground — from out of a flower-garden — 

 you could fuddenly burft into a fcene of this 

 kind? — Should you tell me that near the 

 houfe, and where the walks extended, you 

 would wifh all this to be fmooth and undu- 

 lating, and every mark of roughnefs and 

 abruptnefs deftroyed — I would freely fay, 

 that no profefled improver ought ever to be 

 admitted, except where a profefled improver 

 had been before; and where the CoiTacks 

 had been rifling, the Pandours might be 

 allowed to plunder. 



Thefe, however, are fcenes in which the 

 picturefque ftrongly prevails ; but there are 

 a number of others, where the whole is in 

 a high and prevailing degree beautiful, but 

 where there are touches of the other charac- 

 ter which give fpirit to its foftnefs ; and this 

 is what in many parts of my EfTay I have 

 endeavoured to point out. For inftance, 

 in the moft fimply beautiful river the cur- 

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