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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wards tlie extremity of a pool,—that of
preventing any guefs or fufpicion where
the water was to end, although the end was
very near. This is an efFe& which can only
be produced by iflands, or by fuch piants
root in the water; for where trees or
bufhes grow on low ground, however com-
pletely they may conceal that ground by
hanging over the water, yet we know that
the land mufi: be there, and that the water
mufi end; but flags or bull-rufhes, being
difpofed in tufts and groups behind each
other, do not deftroy the idea of its conti-
nuation.

A large uniform extent of water, which
prefents itfelf to the eye without any in-
tricacy in its accompaniments, requires
to be broken and diverfified like a fi-
inilar extent of lawn; though by no
means in the farne degree: for the de-
light which we receive from the element

Itfelf,