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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fcattered about a landfcape, would not verj
readily unite with other objedts.

The apple bloffoms, whofe colours when
feen near, and when their dirferent iliades
and gradations can be diftinguifhed, are fo
beautiful, at a diftance lofe all their rich-
nefs and variety : they appear only red,
glaring, and fpotty ; and the effedt of a great
number of pear, apple, and cherry trees
in full blow, flrongly proves that red and
white ought never to predominate in the
* general landfcape.

In the opening of fpring alfo, the early
trees in all their frefhnefs of leaves, and

* Having heard that at the time of the blow the whole
county of Hereford looked like a garden, I many years
ago came down at that feafon expe&ing to be in rap-
tures. My difappointment was equal to my expe&ation,
when I crofied the Malvern hilis, and faw the country
fpread out bcfore me; it anfwered indeed to the defcrip-
tion, and did look like a garden; but from that time I
have never wiflied to fee a garden of feveral hundred
acres,

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