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CHAPTER Vlir. 

 On the beautiful, and what might be called the picturesque id 



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Why autumn, and not spring, is called the painter's season • • • • 17 i 

 Blossoms, which are so beautiful near the eye, have a spotty 



appearance in the. general landscape 174 



The first requisite of a picture, is to he a whole • 174 



The colouring of the Venetian school formed upon the tints in 



autumn — Note on the Ganymede of Titian 180 



That of Rubens, on the fresh colours of spring •'• 183 



Character of the atmosphere, and the lights and shadows, in 



spring, summer, autumn, and winter 184 



CHAPTER IX. 



On ugliness • 187 



Angles not ugly ibid. 



Deformity is to ugliness, what picturesqueness is to beauty- • •• 189 



But has in itself no connection with the sublime 190 



Union of deformity with heauty ibid. 



In what deformity consists 191 



Ugliness and deformity in hills and mountains 192 



in ground » • 193 



in trees 196 



in buildings • 1 97 



Ugliness in colours 199 



Effect of uglin'ess and deformity compared • 200 



Illustrated by sounds 201 



Effects of the picturesque, when mixed with ugliness 102 



The excess of the qualities of beauty, tend to insipidity : those 

 of picturesqueness to deformity. — Anecdote of an Anato- 

 mist. Note 204 



Application to improvements 507 



Beauty, picturesqueness, and deformity, in the other senses • • 208 

 General summing up of the arguments, to shew that the pictu- 

 resque has a distinct character. • •» • • • 2.10 



By what means the word came to be introduced into modern 

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