vi PREFACE. 



ticular objects, with which each man is 

 individually concerned. 



The first step towards acquiring an ex- 

 act taste and judgment in respect to visible 

 objects, is to gain an accurate knowledge 

 of their leading characters ; I, therefore, in 

 my first Essay, traced the character of the 

 Picturesque, its qualities, effects, and at- 

 tractions, as distinct from those of the Sub- 

 lime and Beautiful, through the different 

 works of nature and art. 



The next step was to shew, that not; only 

 the effect of picturesque objects, but of all 

 visible objects whatever, are to be judged 

 of by the great leading principles of Paint- 

 ing; which principles, though they are really 

 founded in nature, and totally independent 

 of art, are, however, most easily and use- 

 fully studied in the pictures of eminent 

 painters.. On these two points, which, I 



