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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cheerfulnefs and. grandeur, of fymmetry
and variety, are equally excluded ; and in
which, though the iight is perplexed and
haraifed by the confuiion of petty ob~
jedis, there is not the fmalleft degree of
intricacy.

Firs, planted and left in the fame clofe
array, are very commonly made ufe cf as
fcreens and boundaries; but as the lower
part is of moft confequence where con-
cealment is the objed:, they are, for
the reafons I mentioned before, the mcft
improper trees for that purpofe. I Will,
however, fuppofe them exadtly in the
condition the planter would whh; that
the outer boughs (on which alone
they depend) were preferved from ani-
mals; and that though planted along the
brow of a hill, they had efcaped from
wind and fnow, and the many accidents
to which they are expofed in bleak litua-
X 2 tions;