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CHAPTER II. 



IT seems to me that the neglect, which 

 prevails in the works of modern improvers, 

 of all that is picturesque, is owing to their 

 exclusive attention to high polish and flow- 

 ing lines; the charms of which they are so 

 engaged in contemplating, that they over- 

 look two of the most fruitful sources of 

 human pleasure : the first, that great and 

 universal source of pleasure, variety — the 

 power of which is independent of beauty, 

 but without which even beauty itself soon 

 ceases to please; the second, intricacy — a 

 quality which, though distinct from variety, 



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