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try require, that in the moft drefled parts 

 they fhould be of uniform breadths, and 

 confequently between two regular borders. 

 On that account, however ufeful and even 

 ornamental, they cannot have the playful 

 variety of a path; which, in my idea, is 

 owing, not merely to the variety of its curves, 

 but to the lines of thofe curves being foften- 

 ed into the untrodden grafs, and the transi- 

 tions infenfibly made : for thence proceed, 

 what Hogarth calls the waving lines that 

 lead the eye a kind of wanton chace, and 

 to which diftinclnefs puts an immediate end. 

 Were a gardener, for inftance, to copy, as 

 nearly as poflible, all the waving lines of a 

 path, and to make them as diftinCt as thofe 

 of a gravel walk, nothing could be more 

 abfurd and unnatural. 



The whole of this principle is admirably 

 exemplified in the remark of Annibal Ca- 

 racci, on the different ftyles of painting (not 



drawing) 



