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at the same time, that the beautiful in 

 colour, is of a positive and independent 

 nature; whereas the sublime in colour is 

 in a great degree relative, and depends on 

 the circumstances and associa tions by which 

 it is accompanied. A beautiful colour, 

 is a common and just expression; no one 

 hesitates whether he shall give that title to 

 the leaf of a rose, or to the smallest bit of it; 

 but though the deep gloomy tint of the 

 sky before a storm, and its effect on all 

 nature be sublime, no one would call that 

 colour (whether a dark blue, or purple, or 

 whatever it might be) a sublime colour, if 

 simply shewn him without the other ac- 

 companiments. 



I likewise imagine that no one would 

 call any colour picturesque, if shewn him 

 in the same manner, though many of them 

 might without impropriety be called so: 

 for there are many which having nothing 

 of the freshness and delicacy of beauty, 

 are generally found in objects and scenes 

 highly picturesque, and admirably accord 

 with them. Among these may be reckon- 



