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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been given in an effay, the early fplendor of
which, not even the full meridian blaze of
its illuffrious author has been able to extin-
guifh: but the picturefque, confidered as a
feparate characfter, has neter yet been accu-
rately diftinguiflied from the fubiime and the
beautiful; though as no one has ever pre-
tended that it is fynonimous with either (for
it is fometimes ufed in contradiftinddon to
them both) fuch a diftindion muft exift.

Mr. Gilpin *, from whofe very inge«
nious and extenfive obfervations on this
fubjedi: I have received great pleafure and
inftru&ion, appears to have adopted this
common acceptation, not merely as fuch,
but as giving an exa<ft and determinate
idea of the word; for he defines pic-.

* All the notes, which relate to the difFerence of opi-
nion between me and Mr. Gilpin, including that on
Pindar's celebrated defcripuUh or the eagle, are in the
appendix, page 391.

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