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Such an improvement, however, is great- 

 ly admired ; and I have frequently heard it 

 wondered at, that a green lawn, which i$ 

 so charming in nature, should look so ill 

 when painted. It must be owned, that it 

 does look miserably flat and insipid in a 

 picture ; but that is not entirely the fault 

 of the painter, for it would be difficult to 

 invent any thing more wretchedly insipid, 

 than one uniform green surface dotted with 

 clumps, and surrounded by a belt. If, 

 however, instead of such accompaniments, 

 We supposed a lawn to be adorned with 

 trees disposed in the happiest manner, 

 still I believe it would scarcely be possible 

 to make a long extent of smooth uniform 

 green interesting in a picture: such a 

 scene, even painted b} r a Claude, would 

 want precisely what it Wants in nature; 

 that happy union of warm and cool, of 

 smooth and rough j of picturesque and 

 beautiful, which makes the charm of his 

 best compositions. 



But though such scenes as the great 



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^masters made choice of, are much more. 



