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of incidents, that aided it's beauty. We had hitherto seen
all the lakes we had visited, under a rough, or cloudy sky:
and tho their dignity was certainly increased by that
circumstance; yet the beauty of a lake in splendid, serene
weather, aided, at this time, by the powers of contrast,
made a wonderful impression on the imagination.
"The effect of the sublime, Mr. Burke informs us, is
astonishment; and the effect of beauty, is
pleasure: but when the two ingredients mix, the
effect, he says, is in a good measure destroyed in both.
They constitute a species something different both from the
sublime and beautiful, which I have before called
fine: but this kind, I imagine, has not such a power
on the passions, either as vast bodies have, which are
endowed with the correspondent qualities of the sublime; or
as the qualities of beauty have, when united in a small
object. The affection produced by large bodies, adorned with
the spoils of beauty, is a tention conti-
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