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is so connected and blended with it, that 

 the one can hardly exist without the 

 other. 



According to the idea I have formed of 

 it, intricacy in landscape might be defined, 

 ' that disposition of objects, which, by a par- 

 tial and uncertain concealment, excites and 

 nourishes curiosity*. Variety can hardly 

 require a definition, though from the prac- 

 tice of many layers-out of ground, one 

 might suppose it did. Upon the whole, it 

 appears to me, that as intricacy in the dis- 

 position, and variety in the forms, the tints, 

 and the lights and shadows of objects, are 



* Many persons, who take little concern in the intricacy 

 of oaks, beeches, and thorns, may feel the effects of partial 

 concealment in more interesting objects, and may have 

 experienced how differently the passions are moved by an 

 open licentious display of beauties, and by the unguarded 

 disorder which sometimes escapes the care of modesty, and 

 which coquetry so successfully imitates : 



JParte appar delle mamme acerbe & crude, 

 Parte altrui ne ricuopre invida veste; 

 Invida si, ma se agli occhi il varco chiude^ 

 l/amoros© penner gia aaa store sta. 



