Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Oth.]: 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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us, and a varied frame to all other objedls;
which they admit, exclude, and group with,
almoil at the will of the improver. In
beauty, they not only far excel every thing
of inanimate nature, but their beauty is com~
plete and perfecft in itfelf; while that of al-
moft every other objeft requires their affift-
ance. Without them, the mod: varied ine-
quality of ground—rocks,and mountains^—

tcr. Diftant objecls do not rife fo fuddenly, or fo itn-
mediately and powerfully ftrike upon the fight, as near
ones. Trees on the foreground, as you proceed, aiter
their pofttion every inftant; diftant woods remain the
fame for a long way. An extenfive profpecl, which,
feen continually and uninterruptedly, had tired the eye,
if it be afterwards viewed partially through trees, has the
effedi, and almoft the reality, of novelty. Xnftead of one
imchanging view of remote objedis, each divifton of that
view, btcomes a fubordinate, though a highly interefting
part in a new compofition, of which the trees and the
foreground are the principal.

* Xt is not meant tnat the mountains themfelves muft
be wooded, but ihat there muft be wood in the landfcape;
fcenes of mere aefolation, however grand, foon fatigue
the mind.

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