PART VII. PICTURESQUE IMPROVEMENT. 



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CHAPTER III. 



OF THE UNION OF THE MATERIALS OF LANDSCAPE IN 

 FORMING PICTURESQUE COMPOSITIONS. 



Hitherto I have treated chiefly of managing the materials 

 of landscape, so as each of them may form agreeable composi- 

 tions, whether near or distant from the eye, and whether alone 

 or jn union with other materials. I come now to offer a few 

 hints on composition, and which are generally applicable to the 

 whole. Whatever be the nature of a pleasing landscape, 

 whether grand, beautiful, romantic, extensive, or confined, 

 whether it consist of only one, two, or all of the materials, three 

 marked distances always appear : nor can the eye dwell with 

 pleasure on any scene where this is not the case*. Of these 

 three distances, that which is nearest the eye, or the foreground,, 



* Component parts in all the eye requires :: 

 One formal mass for ever palls and tires. 

 To make the landscape grateful to the sight, 

 Three points of distance always should unite ; 

 And hovvsoe'er the view may be confined, 

 Three mark'd divisions we shall always find. 



Knight's Landscape. 



