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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account that they are principles of beauty:
but if partial and comparative roughnefs
and abruptnefs (as is frequently the cafe in
the vvoodedbanks of rivers) fhould more ef-
fedfually promote that end, vvhoever deftroys
them, and makes the vvhole fmooth and
flowing, will deftroy the component parts
df beauty. For inftance, a bank of mowed,
or of clofely-bitten grals, is clearly much
fmoother than one, on which there are oaks,
t’horns, and hollies: fuch trees and bufhes,
alfo, break and interrupt the continued flow
of thofe fweeps, which moft nearly approach
to vvhat has been called the line of beauty;
and certainly any abruptnefles in the ground,
however flight, are contrary to the idea of
beauty in its confined fenfe: yet a river^
even with broken ground, and with rocks,
vvhen they are foftened (not concealed) by
wood, fothat the vvhole is blended together,
vvill not only be more varied, more fuited to
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