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roughness ; you grew very sick of it, how- 

 ever, towards the end of the week we pass- 

 ed with him last spring : how then should 

 you like to pass your life with a man, whose 

 ideas have one uniform flow, without the 

 least energy or variety ? He is to the mind, 

 what this place is to the eye/' 



" You might equally have made the com- 

 parison," said Mr. Seymour, " between his 

 own place and his mind ; for it is laid out 

 exactly in the same style with this : he had 

 noble disputes with you both, and particu- 

 larly with Hamilton, about his improve- 

 ments : but as at that time I felt no great 

 interest in the subject, I did not much at- 

 tend to them. I remember, however, that 

 one of his great arguments was, that " his 

 object was beauty alone, and that the im- 

 provers of Mr. Brown's school, had nothing 

 to do with the picturesque." Had I then 

 been as much initiated in your doctrines as 

 1 am at present, I should have paid more 

 attention to what was going forward : in- 

 deed, I probably should not have recollect- 



