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Sir Uvedale Price, On the picturesque : with an essay On the origin of taste, and much original matter (1842)

Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, Lauder, Thomas Dick, Sir, 1784-1848 · Edinburgh : Caldwell, Lloyd ; London : Orr · leaf 108

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omposition with the taller and wider spreading trees. Andthen when the road has carried us into the denser woodlands, we shouldbegin to find the edges of it broken and irregular, so as to be in perfectharmony with that nature which ought now to be found luxuriating allaround us, to the wildness of… … CHAPTER III. There are few words whose meaning has been less accurately deter-mined than that of the word picturesque. In general, I believe, it is applied to every object, and every kind ofscenery, which has been or might be represented with good effect inpainting—just as the word beautiful, when…

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