at the gate, and luckily there is a servant 

 coming towards us." 



The servant knew Mi\ Hamilton, and 

 conducted them into the house ; and as 

 they were impatient to see the pictures, 

 they passed at once into the gallery, which 

 contained a great variety of them, and by 

 masters of all the different schools. 



" Here/' said Mr. Seymour, " we shall 

 have ample room for discussing the subject 

 of the beautiful and the picturesque hi 

 painting : I have already had a very good 

 lecture on real objects. Tell me, Howard, 

 do } r ou as little agree to Hamilton's distinc- 

 tions here, as in nature ? do you make 

 rough and smooth, gradual and abrupt— 

 in short, all that he keeps separate— tend 

 to one point, to beauty only? or do you 

 allow of his distinctions in works of art, 

 though not in real objects t" 



" I equally deny them in both," said he ; 

 " I hold, that between the extremes of 

 monotony either of colour or surface, and 

 such harshness of cither as produces a 

 disagreeable sensation, lies that grateful 



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