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that they conceal too much of the archi- 

 tecture. And here I will allow, however 

 desirous I may be of varying the composi- 

 tion from the house, and of softening too 

 open a display of symmetry, that great re- 

 spect ought to be paid to such works as 

 are deservedly ranked among the produc- 

 tions of genius, in an art of high considera- 

 tion from the remotest antiquity. When- 

 ever the improvement of the view would 

 injure the beauty or grandeur of such works, 

 or destroy that idea of connection and 

 symmetry, which, though veiled, should 

 still be preserved, such an improvement 

 would cost too dear. But in buildings, 

 where the forms and the heights are vari- 

 ed by means of pavillions, colonades, &c. 

 there generally are places where trees might 

 be planted with great advantage to the ef- 

 fect of the building, considered as part of 

 a picture, without injury to it as a piece 

 of architecture; and in the placin 2 of 

 which accompaniments, the painter who 

 was conversant with architecture, and the 

 architect who had studied painting, would 

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