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recent works as his finest, are good and right; and if the prevalence throughout of attack and eulogium be found irksome or offensive, let it be remembered that my object thus far has not been either the establishment or the teaching of any principles of art, but the vindication, most necessary to the prosperity of our present schools, of the uncomprehended rank of their greatest artist, and the diminution, equally necessary as I think to the prosperity of our schools, of the unadvised admiration of the landscape of the seventeenth century. For I believe it to be almost impossible to state in terms sufficiently serious and severe the depth and extent of the evil which has resulted (and that not in art alone, but in all other matters with which the contemplative faculties are concerned) from the works of those elder men. On the continent all landscape art has been utterly annihilated by them, and with it all sense of the power of nature. We in England have only done better because our artists have had strength of mind enough to form a school withdrawn from their influence.

These points are somewhat farther developed in the general sketch of ancient and modern landscape, which I have added to the first section of the second part. Some important additions have also been made to the chapters on the painting of sea. Throughout the rest of the text, though something is withdrawn, little is changed; and the reader may rest assured that if I were now to bestow on this feeble essay the careful revision which it much needs, but little deserves, it would not be to alter its tendencies, or modify its conclusions, but to prevent indignation from appearing virulence on the one side, and enthusiasm partisanship on the other.

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een lately so often asked by friends on whose judgely, to permit the publication of another edition of 'ainters" in its original form, that I have at last 1gh with some violence to my own feelings; for many first and second volumes are written in a narrow and the substance of their metaphysical and religtion is only justifiable on the ground of its absolute f the third, fourth, and fifth volumes I indeed mean > rearrange what I think of permanent interest, for e edition of my works, but with fewer and less elabations nor have I any serious grounds for refusing book once more to appear in the irregular form ok as it was written, since of the art-teaching and escription it contains I have little to retrench, and etract.

al edition must, however, be limited to a thousand some of the more delicate plates are already worn, Mill Stream in the fifth volume, and of the Loire juriously; while that of the Shores of Wharfe had to d by an engraver after the removal of the mezzotint ing. But Mr. Armytage's, Mr. Cousen's, and Mr. nificent plates are still in good state, and my own ough injured, are still good enough to answer their

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