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nifhed from improved places. If you take 

 the term picturefque in a very ufual fenfe, 

 as fignifying painter -like, that is, as giving 

 an idea of fuch combinations of form, colour, 

 and light and fhadow, or of any one of them, 

 as Jlrike artifts, though they may not pleafe a 

 common obferver, (and which therefore might 

 not be ill diftinguifhed by fome fuch word 

 as painter-like) the banifhing of fuch effects 

 muft make the ftudy of the higher artifts 

 totally ufelefs. If again you take piclu- 

 refque in my ftricler, but far from contra- 

 dictory fenfe of it— as defcribing what is 

 rough and abrupt, with fudden deviations 

 — the banifhing of all fuch objects, will 

 render the above-mentioned ftudy of almoft 

 as little ufe ; for even in the works of thofe 

 painters who have moft ftudied the beauti- 

 ful, you will have difficulty in finding many 

 inftances of it totally detached from the pic- 

 turefque. 



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