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CHAPTER II.
T T feems to me, that the negled, which
prevails in the works of modern im-
provers, of' all that is pidturefque, is ow r-
ing to their exclufive attention to high
polifli and flowing lines, the charms of
which they are fo engaged in contem-
plating, as to make them overlook two
of the mofl fruitful fources of human
pleafure j the firft, that great and uni*
verfal fource of pleafure, variety, whofe
power is independent of beauty, but with-
out which even beauty itfelf foon ceafes
to pleafe; the other, intricacy, a quality
which, though diftindt from variety, is fo
connedted
CHAPTER II.
T T feems to me, that the negled, which
prevails in the works of modern im-
provers, of' all that is pidturefque, is ow r-
ing to their exclufive attention to high
polifli and flowing lines, the charms of
which they are fo engaged in contem-
plating, as to make them overlook two
of the mofl fruitful fources of human
pleafure j the firft, that great and uni*
verfal fource of pleafure, variety, whofe
power is independent of beauty, but with-
out which even beauty itfelf foon ceafes
to pleafe; the other, intricacy, a quality
which, though diftindt from variety, is fo
connedted