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neral principles of improving are in reality
the fame as thofe of painting, I fhall next
enquire how far the principles of the laft-
mentioned art (clearly the beft qualified
to improve and refine our ideas of nature)
have been attended to by improvers; and
how far alfo thofe who firft produced, and
thofe who have continued the prefent
fyftem, were capable of applying them,
even if they had wiflied to do fo.
It appears from Mr. Walpole’s very in-
genious and entertaining Treatife on Mo-
dern Gardening, that Kent was the firft
who introduced that fo much admired
change from the old to the prefent fyftem ;
the great leading feature of which change,
and the leading charadter of each ftyle, is
very aptly exprelfed in half a line of
Horace;
Mutat quadrata rotundis.
6 Formerly,
neral principles of improving are in reality
the fame as thofe of painting, I fhall next
enquire how far the principles of the laft-
mentioned art (clearly the beft qualified
to improve and refine our ideas of nature)
have been attended to by improvers; and
how far alfo thofe who firft produced, and
thofe who have continued the prefent
fyftem, were capable of applying them,
even if they had wiflied to do fo.
It appears from Mr. Walpole’s very in-
genious and entertaining Treatife on Mo-
dern Gardening, that Kent was the firft
who introduced that fo much admired
change from the old to the prefent fyftem ;
the great leading feature of which change,
and the leading charadter of each ftyle, is
very aptly exprelfed in half a line of
Horace;
Mutat quadrata rotundis.
6 Formerly,