. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; : particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. . ^Z^im^ii^ ?Tvryr/u v^T ?r^.^-y^-^ ^^\. ^, N., N \ \. ^\ -^ rw. ( 89 ) the iky -, which is generally of a lighter pyramidal fhape, and eafy flow of anirregular line, will be found in the mountain,as in other delineations, the truefl fource ofbeauty. Mountains therefore riiing in regular, ma-thematical lines, or in whimfical, grotefquefhapes, are difplealing. Thus Burnfwark, amountain on the fouthern border
. Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; : particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. . ^Z^im^ii^ ?Tvryr/u v^T ?r^.^-y^-^ ^^\. ^, N., N \ \. ^\ -^ rw. ( 89 ) the iky -, which is generally of a lighter pyramidal fhape, and eafy flow of anirregular line, will be found in the mountain,as in other delineations, the truefl fource ofbeauty. Mountains therefore riiing in regular, ma-thematical lines, or in whimfical, grotefquefhapes, are difplealing. Thus Burnfwark, amountain on the fouthern border of Scotland;Thorp-Cloud, near Dovedale in Derbyfhire,efpecially when {een from the garden at Ham jand a mountain in Cumberland, which fromits peculiar appearance in fome lituations, takesthe name of Saddle-bacJzy all form difagreeablelines. And thus many of the pointed fummitsof the Alps are objeifts rather of fingularity,than of beauty. Such forms alfo as fiiggeflthe idea of lumpifh heavinefs are difgufting—round, i^-NtWing forms, without any break todiiincumber them of their weight. Indeed a continuity of line without a break,w^hether it be concave, Jiraight, or convex, willalways difpleafe, becaufe it wants variety;unlefs
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