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for what is rough, abrupt, and piclurefque. 

 He might very plaufibly fay, that, not con- 

 tented with oppofmg Mr. Gilpin, my enthu- 

 fiafm for beauty and its difiincl: qualities, 

 had led me much farther; that I had gone 

 beyond Mr. Burke, and, as if his arguments 

 and illuftrations on that fubjecl: were not 

 fufficient, had added whole chapters of my 

 own. He might treat me as a falfe friend, 

 and afk whether a man can be a true lover of 

 the piclurefque, who allows, that near the 

 houfe it ought to be facrificed to neatnefs 

 and convenience— who talks of the cha- 

 racteriftic beauties of a lawn, of its fmooth- 

 nefs and verdure ; who dwells with rapture 

 on the fofter beauties of nature— on the 

 fragrance and colours of flowers — on the 

 profufion of bloffoms, and all the charms of 

 fpring. 



I might thus be convicted of having no 

 tafte or feeling for any thing, unlefs (as is 



fometimes 



