Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Bearb.]: 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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conned:ed and blended with it, that the
one can hardly exift without the other.

According to the idea I have formed of
it, intricacy in landfcape might be dehned,
that difpofrfion of objedis which, by a par-
tial and uncertain concealmenty excites and
nourifies curiofity Variety can hardly
require a definition, though, from the prac-
tice of many layers-out of ground, one
might fuppofe it did. Upon the whole,
it appears to me, that as intricacy in the
difpoiition, and variety in the forms, the

* Many perfons, who take little concern in the in-
tricacy of oaks, beeches, and thorns, may feel the effects
of partial conceaiment in more interefting objecfe, and
may have experienced how differently the pafiions are
moved by an open licentious difplay of beauties, and by
the unguarded diforder which fometimes efcapes the care
ef modefty, and which coquetry fo fuccefsfully imitates:

Parte appar delle mamme acerbe & crude,

Parte altrui ne ricuopre invida vefte j
Invida fi, ma fe agli occhi il varco chiude,
L’amorofo penfier gia non s’arrefta.

tints.