The landscape : a didactic poem : in three books : addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq. . and blended in the scene, you shew The stately mansion rising to the view. But mixd and blended, ever let it be A mere component part of what you see. 220 For if in solitary pride it stand, Tis but a lump, encumbering the land, A load of inert matter, cold and dead, Th excrescence of the lawns that round it spread. Component parts in all the eye requires: 225 One formal mass for ever palls and make the Landscape grateful to the points of distance always should unite;And howsoeer the view
The landscape : a didactic poem : in three books : addressed to Uvedale Price, Esq. . and blended in the scene, you shew The stately mansion rising to the view. But mixd and blended, ever let it be A mere component part of what you see. 220 For if in solitary pride it stand, Tis but a lump, encumbering the land, A load of inert matter, cold and dead, Th excrescence of the lawns that round it spread. Component parts in all the eye requires: 225 One formal mass for ever palls and make the Landscape grateful to the points of distance always should unite;And howsoeer the view may be markd divisions we shall always find: 2 30 Not more, Claude extends his prospect wide,Oer Romes Campania to the Tyrrhene tide,(Where towrs and temples, mould ring to decay,In pearly air appear to die away, V. 215, and 2 2 1. Compare the same scene in plates 1. and II.; in the latterdressed in the modern style, and in the former, undressed. That my repre-sentation of the effects of both may be perfectly fair, I have chosen the com-monest English 25
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