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is in both destroyed; in both, the hand of 

 time roughens the surface, and traces still 

 deeper furrows ; a few leaves, a few hairs, 

 are thinly scattered on their summits; that 

 light, airy, aspiring look of youth is gone, 

 and both seem shrunk and tottering, and 

 ready to fall with the next blast. 



Such is the change from beauty ; and to 

 what ? surely not to a higher, or an equal 

 degree, or to a different style of beauty, 

 no, nor to any thing that resembles it: 

 and yet, that both these objects, even in 

 this last state, have often strong attractions 

 for painters — their works afford sufficient 

 testimony ; that they are called pictures- 

 que — the general application of the term 

 to such objects, makes equally clear; and 

 that they totally differ from what is beau- 

 tiful — the common feelings of mankind no 

 less convincingly prove, One misappre- 

 hension I would wish to guard against; I 

 do not mean to infer from the instances I 

 have given, that an object to be pictures- 

 que, must be old and decayed; but that 

 the most beautiful objects will become so 



