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tinct as those which make them beautiful 

 or sublime, but are equally extended to all 

 our sensations by whatever organs ihey are 

 received; and that music (though it ap- 

 pears like a solecism) may be as truly 

 picturesque, according to the general 

 principles of picturesqueness, as it may be 

 beautiful or sublime, according to those of 

 beauty or sublimity. 



But there is one circumstance particu- 

 larly adverse to this part of my essay ; I 

 mean the manifest derivation of the word 

 picturesque. The Italian pittoresco is, I 

 imagine, of earlier date than either the Eng- 

 lish or the French word, the latter of which, 

 pittoresque, is clearly taken from it, having, 

 no analogy to its own tongue. Pittoresco 

 is derived, not like picturesque, from the 

 thing painted, but from the painter ; and 

 this difference is not wholly immaterial. 

 The English word refers to the perform- 

 ance, and the objects most suited to it: the 

 Italian and French words have a reference 

 to the turn of mind common to painters ; 



