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objects are set down, as it were, article by 

 article ; and where the confusion of lights 

 so perplexes the eye, that one might sup- 

 pose the artist had looked at them through 

 a multiplying glass. 



I may, perhaps, be thought to have 

 dwelt longer on this article, than the prin- 

 cipal design of my book seemed to require ; 

 but although (as I mentioned in a former 

 part) the study of light and shadow ap- 

 pears at first sight to belong exclusively 

 to the painter, yet, like every thing which 

 relates to that charming art, it will be 

 found of infinite service to the improver. 

 Indeed, the violations of this principle of 

 breadth and harmony of light and shadow, 

 are, perhaps, more frequent, and more 

 disgustingly offensive than those- of any 

 other* 



Many people seem to have a sort of 

 callus over their organs of sight, as others 

 over those of hearing ; and as the callous 

 hearers feel nothing in music but kettle- 

 drums and trombones ; so the callous see- 

 ers can only be moved by strong opposi- 



