We admire splendid views and great pictures; and yet what is truly admirable is rather the mind within us, that gathers together these scattered details for its delight, and makes out of certain colours, certain distributions of graduated light and darkness, that intelligible whole which alone we call a picture or a view.

我们赞叹壮丽的景色和伟大的画作；然而真正值得赞叹的，或许是我们内在的心灵：它为了自己的愉悦，将零散细节汇聚，把若干色彩以及层次分明的明暗，组成一个可以理解的整体——我们称之为画作或风景。