Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape paintingTo these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings. . learn its laws, 140 Examine Nature, when combined with art, Or Ample; mark how various are her forms, Mountains enormous, rugged rocks, clear lakes, Caftles, and bridges, aquedu&s and fanes. • Of these obferve, how fome, united pleafe; 145 While others, ill-combined, difguft the eye. That principle, which rules thefe various parts, And harmonizi
Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape paintingTo these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings. . learn its laws, 140 Examine Nature, when combined with art, Or Ample; mark how various are her forms, Mountains enormous, rugged rocks, clear lakes, Caftles, and bridges, aquedu&s and fanes. • Of these obferve, how fome, united pleafe; 145 While others, ill-combined, difguft the eye. That principle, which rules thefe various parts, And harmonizing all, produces one, Is Difpofition. By its plaftic powr Thofe rough materials, which Defign felects, Are nicely balanced. Thus with friendly aid 150 Thefe principles unite: Defign prefents The general fubjecl:; Difpofition culls, And recombines, the various forms anew. Rarely to more than three diflinguifhed parts Extend thy landfcape: nearefl to the eye 155 Prefent thy foreground ; then the midway fpace; Eer the blue diftance melt in liquid air. But tho full oft thefe parts with blending tints Are foftened fo, as wakes a frequent doubt Where each begins, where ends; yet ftill preferve 160 A general balance. So when Europes fons Sound 4. ( io6 ) Who paints a landfcape, is confined by rules,.As fixed and rigid as the tragic bard,To unity offubjed. Is the fceneA forefl, nothing there, fave woods and lawns 195Mufl rife confpicuous. Epifodes of hillsAnd lakes be far removed \ all that obtrudesOn the chief theme, how beautiful foeerSeen as a part, disgufls us in the whole. Thus in the realms of landfcape, to preferve 200Proportion jufl is Di/po/iiions tho a glance of diflance it allow,Even when the foreground fwells upon the fight;Yet if the diflant fcenery wide extend,The foreground mufl be ample : Take free fcope: 205Art mufl have fpace to fland on, like the Sage,Who boafled power to fhake the folid thou mufl claim ; and if thy diftance fpreadProfufe, mufl
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