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ing moft excels — fcenes produced by acci- 

 dent, not defign — more foft, more truly 

 beautiful in every refpecl, than the imi- 

 tations of them:* they are alfo beautiful 

 on the principles of painting, not of gar- 

 dening, though thofe principles ought to 

 be, and I hope will be, the fame. I will 

 here juft (lightly mention, what I may 

 perhaps enlarge upon fome future time, 

 that in the old Italian gardens, where 

 architecture and gardening were mixed 

 together, effects were produced, to which 

 nothing of the fame kind could be found in 

 unembellifhed nature. 



As you have tried to degrade the pain- 

 ter's ftudies, by comparing them with the 

 opinion of favages ; fo you have ftriven to 



* I believe, however, that thofe who have been ufed to con- 

 fider Mr. Brown's works as perfection, think a little like the 

 Chevalier Taylor, the famous oculilt: he ufed to fay, that there 

 was as much difference between an eye that he had brumed, 

 and an unimproved eye, as between a rough diamond, and a 

 brilliant. 



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