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" the reformation of public taste in real land- 

 " scape more immediately belongs to the 

 ( f higher landscape painters, among whom 

 " the higher painters of every kind may 

 " generally be included ; but there are cir- 

 " cumstances which are likely to prevent 

 " them from succeeding in a task for which 

 " they are so well qualified. In the first 

 " place, they have few opportunities of giving 

 " their opinion, being seldom employed in 

 " improved places ; certainly not in repre- 

 " senting the improved parts : for there is 

 " a strong repugnance, of which the owners 

 <4 themselves are aware, in him who has stu- 

 " died Titian, Claude, and Poussin, and the 

 " style of art and of nature that they had 

 " studied, to copy the clumps, the naked 

 " canals, and no less naked buildings of Mr. 

 " Brown."* 



It does not appear upon what grounds the 

 author of the Planter's Guide pronounces all 

 controversy between hostile systems to be at 

 an end, when he might himself be hailed as 

 the champion of the opposite opinions in the 

 subject before us. The Brown ists would 

 triumphantly quote his recommendation of 



* Price on the Picturesque, vol. ii. p. 179. 



