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becoming mannerifts. The improver par- 

 ticularly, without the ftudy of the higher 

 artifts joined to that of varied nature, is 

 fure to get into a habit of common- place 

 forms; of rounds and ovals, and diftinc~l 

 clump-like mafles. Thefe, by general effects 

 of breadth and tinting, he may difguife in 

 his drawings, and thus his own eyes, and 

 thofe of his employers will learn to acquiefce 

 in them, nay, to be partial to fuch forms ; 

 and it mould always be remembered, that 

 Kent, a painter by profeflion, (a bad one 

 it is true,) had been fo accuftomed to con- 

 fider objects as an improver, that at lafl 

 he could only copy the little beeches he had 

 planted. 



I am forry you fhould fuppofe that many 

 pages in my Eflay are pointed againft your 

 opinions; I can fay with great truth, that 

 there is fcarcely one whole page pointed at 

 them. I have, indeed, canvafled with great 



freedom 



