Price, Uvedale: Essays 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 2) (Hereford, 1798)

PREFACE.

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improvement, many pofitions in my firft work«
From thefe circumftances of general utility,
and perhaps from the animationof controverfy,
on a fubje6t which, throughout this kingdom,
in fome meafure, occupied the thoughts of
every gentleman of property, the Letter to
Mr. Repton was, as I have been told, more
popular than the Effay.

Yet ftill, notwithftanding the degree of prac-
tical difcuftion in that Letter, it might be faid,
even by thofe who are moft partial to my ideas
on the fubject, “ it is true that you have fhewn
“ the tamenefs and monotony of Mr. Brown's
<e made-water and regularly ftoped banks, and
“ the fuperior beauty and variety of thofe in
“ natural lakes and rivers; but hy what means
<c can thefe laft be imitated? how can thofe
“ numberlefs varieties, which often owe their
<c charms to a certain artlefs and negligent ap-
cc pearance, be produced by the duli mechani-
cc cal operations of common labourers ? If you
cc Would have us quit the prefent ftvle, fliew

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