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juft defcribed, clofe to a gentleman's houfe, he 

 would very naturally make a regular gravel 

 walk through it, and he would do very right ; 

 for convenience, neatnefs, and a drefled ap- 

 pearance, are in fuch cafes among the firft 

 confiderations. But then, according to the 

 doctrine I have endeavoured to eftablifh, 

 fuch a walk would not improve the beauty 

 of the fcene, though it would give it, what, 

 on another principle, is highly pleafing : On 

 the contrary, however well it might be ma- 

 naged, however artfully carried among the 

 trees and fhrubs, and partially concealed and 

 broken by them, ft ill the lines of it would 

 ftiffly cut acrofs every thing, and never, like 

 thofe of the pathway, play as it were into 

 the other objects, and infenfibly fteal among 

 them. It was on that account I obferved, 

 that near the houfe piclurefque J)eauty (for 

 in that early part of my ElTay I had made 

 po objection to the term) muft often be 



faerificed 



