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tural, or improved scenery; but our friend 

 there has taken a strong antipathy to any 

 distinction or subdivision on this subject." 



" For the present," said Mr. Seymour, 

 " I will not enter any further on this point 

 of difference, but will at once begin my 

 queries. Tell me, then, how you account 

 for this strange difference between an eye 

 accustomed to painting, and that of such 

 a person as myself? If those things which 

 Howard calls beautiful, and those which I 

 should call beautiful, are as different as 

 light and darkness, would it not be better 

 to have some term totally unconnected 

 with that of beauty, by which such objects 

 as we have just been looking at, should be 

 characterized ? By such means, you would 

 avoid puzzling us vulgar observers with a 

 term, to which we cannot help annexing 

 ideas of what is soft, graceful, elegant, 

 and lovely; and which, therefore, when 

 applied to hovels, rags, and gypsies, con- 

 tradicts and confounds all our notions and 

 feelings." 



