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CHAPTER V, 



Of the three characters, two only are 

 in any degree subject to the improver; to 

 create the sublime is above our contracted 

 powers, though we may sometimes height- 

 en, and at all times lower its effects by art. 

 It is, therefore, on a proper attention to 

 the beautiful and the picturesque, that 

 the art of improving real landscapes must 

 depend. 



As beauty is the most pleasing of all 

 ideas to the human mind, it is very natural 

 that it should be most sought after, and 

 that the name should have been applied to 

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