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T.p. epigraph: [Lovely indeed the mimic works of art; / But Nature’s works far lovelier. I admire, / None more admires, the painter’s magic skill. / But imitative strokes can do no more / Than please the eye; sweet Nature ev’ry sense. / The air salubrious of her lofty hills, / The chearful fragrance of her dewy vales, / And music of her woods––no works of man / May rival these; these bespeak a power / Peculiar, and exclusively her own. Cowper.]; adapted from William Cowper, The Task (1785), bk 1, ll. 421-32.
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Dedicated ‘To the Right Honourable The Countess Winterton’.
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Contains list of subscribers.
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Reviews: Analytic Rev. 21.5 (May 1795): 490-96; British Critic 6 (Aug. 1795): 160-64; Monthly Rev. 18 (Nov. 1795): 269-74; Gentleman's Mag. 65 (Nov. 1795): 943.
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