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. . ESSAY II. ON THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE AUTHORS SKETCHESARE COMPOSED. ——— Contented with a humble theme, He pours the ftream of imitation down The vale of nature, where it creeps and winds Among her wild and lovely ( 59 ) Most of the fketches here offered to thepublic, are imaginary views. But as manypeople take offence at imaginary vie
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. . ESSAY II. ON THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE AUTHORS SKETCHESARE COMPOSED. ——— Contented with a humble theme, He pours the ftream of imitation down The vale of nature, where it creeps and winds Among her wild and lovely ( 59 ) Most of the fketches here offered to thepublic, are imaginary views. But as manypeople take offence at imaginary views; andwill admit fuch landfcape only as is immedi-ately taken from nature, I muft explain whatwe mean by an imaginary view. We acknowledge nature to be the grandftorehoufe of all piclurefque beauty. Thenearer we copy her, the nearer we approachperfection. But this does not affect theimaginary view. When we fpeak of copyingnature, we fpeak only of particular objects, andparticular pajfages — not of putting the wholetogether in a picturefque manner; which wefeldom feek in nature, becaufe it is feldomfound. Nature gives us the materials of land-fcape ; woods, rivers, lakes, trees, ground, andmountains: but leaves us to work them upinto pictures, as our fancy leads. It is thusfhe fheds her bounty on other gives us grafs; but leaves us to makehay. She gives us corn; but leaves us to makebread. Yet ( m ) Yet ftill in copying the feveral objeBs, anapajfa
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