PREFACE, 



XlIE following Dialogue is written in an-, 

 swer to a Note, which my friend Mr. Knight 

 has inserted in the second edition of The 

 Landscape. In that Note he has stated it 

 as his opinion, that the distinction which I 

 have endeavoured to establish between the 

 Beautiful and the Picturesque, is an imagi- 

 nary one ; and has given his reasons for 

 thinking so. 



I have thrown my defence into its pre- 

 sent form, in hopes that after so much 

 discussion upon the subject, something 

 lighter, and more like amusement, might 

 be furnished by this method. I also 

 thought, that many persons who were 

 not affected or convinced by reasoning 



