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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 443

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an be improved by beauty, picturesqueness may be transferred to the ragged gipsy, with whom the wild ass, the Pomeranian dog, and shaggy goat, are more inharmony, than the sleek-coated horse, or the dappled deer, whichhave never till lately been discovered, when in groups, to be meagreand spotty.… … Amidst the severity of your satire on Mr. Brown and his followers, Icannot be ignorant that many pages are directly pointed at my opinions ;although with more delicacy than your friend Mr. Knight has shown,in the attempt to make me an object of ridicule, by misquoting my un-published MSS. It is the…

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