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)

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4 is a more pleafing obje6t in a dwindled
c and fhrivelled condition, than When her vi-
e gour is as great, her beauty as frefh, and
“ her looks as charming as if fhe newly
“ came out of the forming hands of her
“ Creator ?” I do not know in what man-
ner Lord Shaftefbury, from whom the latter
part of this pafiage is taken, may have ap-
plied it, but as it has been made ufe of by
Mr. G. Mafon, it feems to mean, (if it
means any thing) that pieces of artificial
water, as they have generally been made,
of one equal verdure, and fmoothnefs, look
as if they were the immediate produ6fions
of the Creator;* while natural lakes and
rivers, (thebanks of which muft always be

* I remember having been toid by a perfon of great vera-
city, (and who, if I am not miftaken, was prefent at the con-
verfation,) that Mr. Brown, on forne of his works being com-
mended, had faid, “ None but your Browns and your God
“ Almighties can do fnch things as thefe.” Mr. Maion
feems to have juftified the pretenfion contained in this blaf-
phemous piece of arrogance.

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