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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C H A P T E R III.

F all the effedts in landfcape, the

moft brilliant and captivating are
thofeproducedbywater, 011 the management
of which, (as I have been tdd,) Mr. Brown
particularly piqued himfelf. If thofe beau-
ties in natural rivers and lakes which are
imitabie by art, and the feledtions of them
in the works of great painters, are the beft
guides in forming artificial ones, Mr. Brown
grollly miftook his talent; for among all
his tame produdtions, his pieces of made
water are perhaps the moft fo.

One of the moft ftriking properties of
water, and that which moft diftinguithes

it