Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Oth.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

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their general caufes and efFe&s; and in
that, and the fix following chapters, I have
traced them, as far as my obfervation would
enable me, through all the works of art,
and of nature.

This part, the mofi: curious and inter-
efting to a fpeculative mind, will be leafi:
fo to thofe who think only of what has a
direcft and immediate reference to the ar-
rangement of fcenery : that indeed it has
not; but it is a difcufiion well calculated to
give juft and enlarged ideas, of what is of
no flight importance—the general charac-
ter of each place, and the particular cha-
racfter of each part of its fcenery. Every
place, and every fcene that are worth ob-
ferving, muft have fomething of the fub-
lime, the beautiful, or tne pidturefque; and
every man will allow that he would wifh
to preferve and to heighten, certainly not
to weaken or deftroy, their prevailing cha -
radter. The moft obvious method of fuc-
ceeding in the one, and of avoiding the
other, is by fcudying their caufes and ef-

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