William Gilpin - On Picturesque Beauty (Extract) lyrics

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William Gilpin - On Picturesque Beauty (Extract) lyrics

Disputes about beauty might perhaps be involved in less confusion, if a distinction were established, which certainly exists, between such objects as are beautiful, and such as are picturesque -- between those, which please the eye in their natural state; and those, which please from some quality, capable of being illustrated in painting.