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excellent study for an architect, to make 

 drawings of Blenheim,* endeavouring to 

 preserve the principle of light and shadow, 

 the character of the architectural fore- 

 ground, the effect of the raised decorations 

 on the roof, and the general grandeur and 

 variety of the whole; but trying at the same 

 time to give more lightness and piiri ty of 

 style to that whole, more elegance and con- 

 gruity to the parts; observing as he pro- 

 ceeded, how far he found it necessary to sa- 

 crifice purity, lightness, elegance, and unity 

 of style, in order to preserve those effects 

 which Vanbrugh has 1 (Produced. Let him 

 too, if he likewise understand landscape, 

 substitute any fine house of the same style 

 of architecture with those I lately mention- 

 ed, in the room of Blenheim.- Let him do 

 it where the view first opens, at the entrance 

 from Woodstock; and also in other views, 

 where the portico, and the best parts of such 



* If I mention Blenheim 1 singly, it isy that I have had 

 ponstant opportunities of examining it, which I, unluckily, 

 have not enjoyed, with respect to the no less magnificent 

 fabric of Castle Howard. 



