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and glades between them, gently leading
the eye among their intricacies to the fhore,
might have been planted, or left if grow-
jng there : this would have formed a rich
and varied foreground to the magnificent
difiiance; and in the approach to the fea-
fide, which ever way you took, would have
broken that difiiance, and have rormed, in
conjundlion with it, a number of new and
beautiful compofitions. One of Mr. Brown’s
fucceifors has thought diffierently, and this
uncommon difplav of fcenery is difgraced
by a beit.
I do not remember this place in its un-
improved ftate; but I was told that there was
a great quantity of wood between the houfe
and the fea, and that the vefiels appeared
(as at that wonderful place, Mount Edge«
cumbe) as if failing over the tops, and
gliding among the fiems of the trees; if fo,
this profefior
Has left fad marks of his deftrudtive fway.’'
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and glades between them, gently leading
the eye among their intricacies to the fhore,
might have been planted, or left if grow-
jng there : this would have formed a rich
and varied foreground to the magnificent
difiiance; and in the approach to the fea-
fide, which ever way you took, would have
broken that difiiance, and have rormed, in
conjundlion with it, a number of new and
beautiful compofitions. One of Mr. Brown’s
fucceifors has thought diffierently, and this
uncommon difplav of fcenery is difgraced
by a beit.
I do not remember this place in its un-
improved ftate; but I was told that there was
a great quantity of wood between the houfe
and the fea, and that the vefiels appeared
(as at that wonderful place, Mount Edge«
cumbe) as if failing over the tops, and
gliding among the fiems of the trees; if fo,
this profefior
Has left fad marks of his deftrudtive fway.’'
T 4 The