Excerpt from An Essay on the Picturesque, as Compared With the Sublime and the Beautiful, And, on the Use of Studying Pictures, for the Purpose of Improving Real Landscape I cannot however, refill the fatisfae'tion of mentioning one circumftance, highly flattering to me, as it accounts for my not chufing to delay this publication. I had mentioned to Mr. Knight that I ihaid written fome papers on the prefent fte of improvement, but that I defpaired of ever' getting. Them ready for the-prefs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.