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it was in its entire state ; therefore, accord- 

 ing to him, it must be more beautiful, for 

 he says, that the picturesque is merely that 

 kind of beauty which belongs exclusively 

 to the sense of vision ; in other words that 

 it is the beautiful in visible objects. 



" You have, indeed, made good use of 

 this inside of St. Peter's/' said Mr. Sey- 

 mour; " and I must own, it has befriended 

 you extremely in this discussion. Nothing 

 has so much tended to convince me of the 

 want of a distinction ; for though I have 

 never paid much attention to the strict use 

 of the word, I have perpetually heard it 

 observed, that ruins are more picturesque 

 than entire buildings : now, when I look at 

 that building, there seems to be something 

 so very contradictory in the idea of its be- 

 coming more beautiful by destruction, that 

 I must either deny that it will become more 

 picturesque, or give a very different sense 

 to those words* But is it possible that in 

 such a case Howard can really think there 

 js no distinction ?" 



