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to crown all, like Mr. Kent, plant dead 

 trees * — the deformity of such a place 

 would, I believe, be very generally allowed, 

 though the insipidity of the other might 

 not be so readily confessed. 



I may here remark, that though pictu- 

 resqueness and deformity are by their ety- 

 mology so strictly confined to the sense of 

 seeing, yet there is in the other senses a 

 most exact resemblance to their effects; 

 this is the case, not only in that of hearing, 

 of which so many examples have been 

 given, but in the more contracted senses of 

 tasting and smelling; and the progress I 

 have mentioned* is in them also equally 

 plain and obvious. It can hardly be 

 doubted, that what answers to the beauti- 

 ful in the sense of tasting, has smoothness 

 and sweetness for its basis, with such a 

 degree of stimulus as enlivens, but does not 

 overbalance those qualities ; such, for in- 

 stance, as in the most delicious fruits and 

 liquors. Take away the stimulus, they 

 become insipid ; increase it so as to over- 



* Vide Mr. Walpole's Essay on Modern Gardening, 



