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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higher than the general level of the fummit:
if, therefore, what I have faid on the fubje6t
of fummits be juft, the appearance and ef-
fe6t of chimnies cannot be a matter of in-
difference. The outline of a building muft
depend upon the form, proportion, and dif-
tribution of the principal mafies: in point of
fize, chimnies cannot come under that de~
fcription, but they may in fome degree, on
account of their fituation; by means of which
they are themfelves very confpicuous, and
when viewed at fome difiance have a great
influence on the outline of whatever part is
immediateiy under them. When, for in-
fiance, in the near view of a houfe, you have
admired the portico with its columns, the rich
capitals, mouldings, and cornices, the baluf-
trade that furrounds the top, the fiatues,
urns, and vafes, with which it is adorned—•
fhould you retire from it ten paces further,
and then look back, you may, perhaps, fee
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