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in a great measure on those early habits 

 and feelings, which are common to all 

 mankind, that I ground the distinction 

 which Howard rejects as imaginary. I 

 watched jour feelings, unbiassed as they 

 were by any thing of system, or by asso- 

 ciations with pictures; and I remarked 

 throughout our whole progress to day, (and 

 sometimes, I believe, mentioned it at the 

 moment) that although you scarcely paid 

 any attention to those objects or combina- 

 tions, the charms of which have been 

 pointed out by painting, you were not 

 less delighted than Howard and myself, 

 with all that the common sentiment of 

 mankind, as well as that of more refined 

 and cultivated minds like your own, pro- 

 claims to be beautiful : and in the picture 

 gallery, your delight, or indifference, was in- 

 fluenced by similar feelings. Had you been 

 struck in the same manner, if not in the same 

 degree, with the hovel, the gypsies, the blast- 

 ed oak, andallthecircumstances and accom- 

 paniments, as we were; had you lingered 

 with us in the hollow lane, — indeed, had I 



