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As, according to my notions, your art 

 very much depends on mixing in proper de- 

 grees, and according to circum fiances, the 

 two characters, and in fome cafes on pre- 

 ferving them nearly unmixed — and as fome 

 confufion is likely to arife from the term 

 beautiful being made ufe of both in a gene- 

 ral and a confined fenfe, I will here add a 

 few remarks to what I have faid in my 

 Eflay, which may help to clear up a fubjedfc, 

 whofe chief difficulties (like thofe of many 

 others) have arifen from the uncertain and 

 licentious ufe of words. 



It feems to me, that the term beautiful, 

 in its molt general and extended acceptation, 

 is applied to all that allures, attracts, or 

 pleafes the eye in every ftyle. It is applied 

 to rocks, precipices, rugged old trees, tor- 

 rents, &c. as well as to lhrubs, flowers, 

 meadows, and gentle ftreams, and that in 

 the moft indiscriminate manner; to gay and 

 L 4 brilliant 



