BEAUTIES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE ART. 
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SECTION II. 
BEAUTIES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE ART. 
Capacities of the art. The beauties of the ancient style. The modern style. The Beauti- 
ful and the Picturesque: their distinctive characteristics. Illustrations drawn from 
Nature and Painting. Nature and principles of Landscape Gardening as an Imitative 
art. Distinction between the Beautiful and Picturesque. The principles of Unity 
Harmony, and Variety. 
“ Here Nature in her unaffected dresse, 
Plaited with vallies and imbost with hills, 
Enchast with silver streams, and fringed with woods 
Sits lovely.” — 
Chamberlayne. 
“ II est des soins plus doux, un art plus enchanteur. 
C’est peu de charmer l’ceil, il faut parler au cceur. 
Avez-vous done connu ces rapports invisibles, 
Des corps inanimes et des etres sensibles 1 
Avez-vous entendu des eaux, des pres, des hois, 
La muette eloquence et la secrete voix ? 
Rendez-nous ces effets.” Les Jardins, Boole I. 
E F O E E we proceed to a detailed and 
more practical consideration of the subject, 
let us occupy ourselves for a moment with 
the consideration of the different results 
which are to be sought after, or, in other 
words, what kinds of beauty we may hope to 
produce by Landscape Gardening. To attempt the smallest 
work in any art, without knowing either the capacities q f 
