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columns of the other ; projecting roofs, 

 sheds with brackets, and rails, have in an- 

 other style, the effect of cornices and ba- 

 lustrades: the vulgar flower-pots of Ostade, 

 take the forms of urns and vases in Claude : 

 his winding staircase, of magnificent flights 

 of steps ; it is the fable of Baucis and 

 Philemon. 



Architecture is the divinity, that raises the 

 porches of cottages and the rude posts that 

 support them, into porticos and colonnades ; 

 but while it refines and ennobles, it neces- 

 sarily takes off from that quickly-changing 

 variety and intricacy of form, and that cor- 

 respondent light and shadow, which are so 

 striking in picturesque buildings, and which 

 constitute and prove their distinct character. 

 Such, indeed, must always be the effect of 

 high polish and refinement, however judi- 

 cious ; and the same analogy prevails in 

 language, in manners, in every thing with 

 which the human mind is conversant. The 

 pleasure which we receive from beauty and 

 grandeur of character, is more refined and 

 exalted : still however there is a peculiar 



