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favour of studying their works for the 

 purposes of improvement. 



On the subject of water I have again the 

 misfortune of differing from Mr^ Gilpin. 

 He says, " * Jf the lake be spread out on 

 the canvass [and in this case it cannot be 

 different in nature] the marmoreum aequor, 

 pure, limpid, smooth as the polished mirror, 

 we acknowledge it to be picturesque/' No 

 one, T believe, will be singular enough to 

 deny that a lake in such a state is beauti- 

 ful ; and such I am persuaded must always 

 be its prevailing character, though many 

 picturesque circumstances should be found 

 in the scenery around it. On this occasion 

 I must beg leave to quote a passage from 

 Mr. Locke -j-, on a different subject indeed, 

 but of general application. "These pas- 

 sions (fear, anger, shame, envy, &c.) are 

 scarce any of them simple and alone, and 

 wholly unmixed with others, though 



* Essay on Picturesque Beauty, page 22. 



f On the Human Understanding, octavo edit, page 208. 



