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produces grand and striking effects, I should 

 not hesitate in preferring the latter. 



AIL that the architect can do, is to disguise, 

 if he cannot new model the forms of his 

 chimnies; they must exist, and must occupy 

 a conspicuous station : painters indeed, in 

 representing any splendid edifices, usually 

 take the liberty of omitting them altoge- 

 ther ; a liberty which in some respects we 

 may regret their having taken, as if they 

 had thought themselves obliged to make 

 out the form distinctly, they probably would 

 have contrived to make it harmonize with 

 the rest of the structure, and would have 

 afforded very useful hints to the architect. 

 But though on that particular point we can 

 gain little or nothing from pictures, yet for 

 the general forms and outlines of sum- 

 mits, and for that degree of enrichment 

 and diversity in them which accords 

 with purity and elegance, we must have 

 recourse to the works of the great Ita- 

 lian masters, as well as for the enchant- 

 ing effects of those summits, when mixed 



