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ing delight of a wide extended prospect,* or a view down a steep hill, because they are all fubjects incapable of being painted.

Notwithstanding the occasional asperity of your remarks on my opinions, and the unprovoked fally of Mr. Knight's wit, I esteem it a very pleasant circumstance of my life to have been perfonally known to you both, and to have witnessed your good taste in many fituations. I fhall beg leave, therefore, to fubfcribe myself, with much regard and esteem,

SIR,

Your moft obedient

Humble fervant,

H. REPTON.

Hare-freet, near Romford,

July 1, 1794.

* An extenfive prospect is here mentioned as one of the fubjects that may be delightful, although not picturesque.-But I have repeatedly given my opinion, that however defirable a prospect may be from a tower or belvidere, it is feldom adviseable from the windows of a constant refidence.

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P. S. One

P.S. One of the etchings in Mr. Knight's poem has been reprefented as copied from a work of mine; an idea which I believe Mr. Knight never intended to fuggeft: the fame thing may poffibly happen with respect to the place mentioned by you at page 200, and the other "two places on

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a very large scale (page 215,) as laid out

by a profeffed improver of high reputa"tion." Now this being the title under which I frequently feel myself alluded to from our occafional converfations, I trust to your candour to explain, in a future edition, that these places are not works of mine.

A

LETTER

то

H. REPTON, Esq.

ON THE APPLICATION OF

THE PRACTICE AS WELL AS THE PRINCIPLES

OF

Landscape-Painting to Landscape-Gardening:

INTENDED AS

A SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

" ESSAY ON THE PICTURESQUE."

BY

UVEDALE PRICE, ES2

A

LETTER, &c.

SIR,

THOUGH upon fome accounts I might

have wifhed that the printed Letter you have addreffed to me, had been a private one; yet upon the whole I cannot be forry that you have made it public. I am thereby enabled freely and openly to difcufs the points of difference between us; to enforce fome principles, and enlarge upon others, on which I had touched but flightly. On the other hand, had it been a private Letter, those points might have been more amicably difcuffed; explana

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