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CHAPTER VIII. 



I HAVE hitherto endeavoured to trace 

 the picturesque in all that relates to form, 

 and to the effects of light and shade; I 

 have endeavoured to distinguish it from 

 the beautiful, and from the sublime; and 

 to shew the influence of breadth on them 

 all. It now remains to examine how 

 far the same general principles operate 

 with regard to colours. 



Mr. Burke's idea of the beautiful in co- 

 lour seems to me in the highest degree 

 satisfactory, and to correspond with all his 

 pther ideas of beauty. I must observe 



