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that the artists should choose to perpetuate 

 on their canvas such figures, animals, 

 trees, buildings, &c. as he should wish, if 

 he saw them in nature, to remove from 

 his sight. He might afterwards, however, 

 begin to observe, that among objects which 

 to him appeared void of every kind of at- 

 traction, the painters had decided reasons 

 of preference ; whether from their strongly 

 marked peculiarity of character, from the 

 variety produced by sudden and irregular 

 deviation, from the manner in which the 

 rugged and broken parts caught the light, 

 and from those lights being often opposed 

 to some deep shadow, or from the rich 

 and mellow tints produced by various 

 stages of decay ; all of which he had pass- 

 ed by without noticing, or had merely 

 thought them ugly, but now began to look 

 at with some interest: he would find at the 

 same time, that there were quite a suffi- 

 cient number of objects, which the painter 

 would perfectly agree with him in calling 

 ugly, without any addition or qualifica^ 

 tion, 



