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feparate qualities of beauty; but to mew, 

 that even with fuch an affected feleclion, and 

 with as ftudied an exclufion of whatever has 

 any of the feparate qualities of the piclu- 

 refque,* a fcene might be formed, to which, 

 I truft, the painter would not have the fame 

 objection as to one of Mr. Brown's ; though 

 he might not call it pieturefque, or chufe it 

 for the fubjecl: of a landfcape. 



I eafily conceive, that a perfon who is very 

 much ftruck with a fcene that exhibits the 

 varied, and ftrongly marked effects of bro- 

 ken ground ; of fudden proje6Hons, and deep 

 hollows ; of old twilled trees, with furrowed 

 bark; of water tumbling in a deep-worn 

 channel over rocks and rude ftones, and half 

 loft among fhaggy roots, decaying ftumps, 

 and withered fern; and who views the 

 whole in fome favourable moment of light 

 and fhadow, — may very naturally call that 

 whole beautiful ; for he gives to what fo much 



* Efluy on the Pi&urefque, page 61. 



pleafes 



