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mind, from what a ftrong and perverfe tafte 

 does on the palate ; and that, far from dead- 

 ening the organs, it makes them more alive 

 to every fine fenfation, in every ftyle. Sir 

 Jofhua Reynolds's enthufiafm for M. Angelo, 

 and high admiration of Titian's landfcapes, 

 did not make him lefs delighted with 

 Correggio and Claude, with Watteau and 

 Teniers; and he who felt all the favage 

 grandeur of Salvator s fcenery, equally en- 

 joyed the view from his houfe on Richmond 

 terras. 



Whoever reads your Letter without having 

 read my book, muft probably conclude that 

 I am a fort of tyger, who pafs my life in a 

 jungle, with no more idea of the fofter beau- 

 ties of nature than that animal. I fear 1 

 am not lefs expofed to an imputation of a 

 very different kind ; and I fliould not be fur- 

 prized, were fome wrong-headed friend of 

 Mr. Gilpin to reprefent me as a man fo in 

 love with fmoothnefs, as to have no relifh 



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