...confinement, and is fed with an infinite variety of images, without any certain stint or number. . . We may be sure that artificial works receive a greater...is not only pleasant, but the pattern more perfect. . . There is generally in nature something more grand and august than in the curiosities of art. When,...

...perfection. Describing the experience of viewing a scene in a camera obscura, Addison contrasts nature and art: We may be sure that artificial Works receive...pleasant, but the pattern more perfect. The prettiest Landskip I ever saw was one drawn on the Walls of a dark Room, which stood opposite on one side to...

...that "the Products of Nature rise in value, according as they more or less resemble those of art" and that "artificial Works receive a greater Advantage from their Resemblance of such as are natural." He writes: "The prettiest Landskip I ever saw, was one drawn on the Walls of a dark Room, which stood...

...Devices. Addison's erased passage occurs in the following connexion : — " If the Works of Nature rise in value according as they more or less resemble those...resemblance of such as are Natural ; because here the resemblance is not only pleasant, but the pattern more perfect. I believe most readers are pleased...

...further attention to one of Addison's more curious propositions. This is, if "the Products of Nature rise in Value according as they more or less resemble those...Advantage from their Resemblance of such as are natural. . . ." 20 This neat distinction points to the necessity for an approximate mean condition between the...