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Perhaps you will tell me I have miftaken 

 your meaning; that by beauty you do not 

 mean to confine yourfelf to what is merely 

 fmooth and undulating, nor to to exclude 

 many of thofe natural circumftances which 

 though rough and abrupt, yet when not too 

 prevalent, accord with, and add to the ge- 

 neral effect: ; which effect is beauty. Should 

 you fay fo, you will fay precifely what I have 

 faid throughout my book : but in that cafe 

 what is the difpute about ? You agree with 

 me in my diftinction between the two cha- 

 racters ; they muft be either mixed or un- 

 mixed : if you take beauty alone, feparated 

 from the picturefque, you muft not admit 

 of any thing rough or abrupt with what is 

 fmooth and undulating, (except where na- 

 ture has indivifibly mixed them together, 

 or where they are foftened and difguifed by 

 other circumftances) elfe it is not unmixed 

 beauty according to our notions. If you 

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