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and both feem fhrunk and tottering, and
ready to fall with the next blad:.
Such is the change from beauty; and to
what ? furely not to a higher, or an equal
degree, or to a different ftyle of beauty, no,
nor to any thing that refembles it: and yet,
that both thefe objefts, (even in this laft
flate) have often ftrong attradions for pain-
ters—their works afford fufficient teflimo-
ny; that they are called pidturefque—the
general application of the term to fuch ob-
je&s, makes it equally clear; and that they
totally differ from what is beautiful—the
common feelings of mankind no lefs con-
vincingly prove. One mifapprehenfion I
would wiih to guard againft; I do not
mean, hy the inftances I have given, to
affert, that an objedt, to be pidturefque,
muft be old and decayed ; but that the moft
beautiful objedts will often become fo, by
age, and by decay: and I believe it is equally
true.
and both feem fhrunk and tottering, and
ready to fall with the next blad:.
Such is the change from beauty; and to
what ? furely not to a higher, or an equal
degree, or to a different ftyle of beauty, no,
nor to any thing that refembles it: and yet,
that both thefe objefts, (even in this laft
flate) have often ftrong attradions for pain-
ters—their works afford fufficient teflimo-
ny; that they are called pidturefque—the
general application of the term to fuch ob-
je&s, makes it equally clear; and that they
totally differ from what is beautiful—the
common feelings of mankind no lefs con-
vincingly prove. One mifapprehenfion I
would wiih to guard againft; I do not
mean, hy the inftances I have given, to
affert, that an objedt, to be pidturefque,
muft be old and decayed ; but that the moft
beautiful objedts will often become fo, by
age, and by decay: and I believe it is equally
true.