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the broken fragments of rocks, would no- 

 less forcibly have marked those of ruins j 

 and we might expect, from a general idea 

 of his style, that they would form" a distin- 

 guished part of many of his pictures I as 

 they do not, and as his rejection of them* 

 and almost of buildings altogether from his 

 landscapes, could not arise from ignorance 

 of their forms, or from inability to represent 

 them, it must have been founded upon prin- 

 ciple ; and the reasonings and feelings of 

 such a mind as his in all that respects his 

 own art, are well worth attending to.* 



'Having mentioned what seem to me the 

 most characteristic marks of the grand, and 



* These remarks must be confined to those pictures 

 whore the landscape is principal, and the scenery such 

 as he usually painted, wild and romantic > In the fa- 

 mous picture at Lord Tovvrisend's, there is a column, 

 with fragments of architectural ornaments; for the subject, 

 if it be Marius amidst the ruins of Carthage, required such 

 an accompaniment. In one or two of his etchings; there are 

 a!so,bits of architecture introduced with equal propriety ; 

 and instead of his broken trees, they ate accompanied with 

 cypresses. All these instances prove that he did not Work 

 capriciously, but on settled principles, 

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