16 ANALYSIS of BEAUTY.

These seeming faults, which stiew the superior ana-tomical knowledge as well as judgmenttof the ancients;are not to be found in the leaden imitations, of it nearHyde-park. These saturnine genius’s imagin’d theyknew how to correct such apparent disproportions. )These few examples may be sufficient to give an ideaof what I mean, (and would have understood) by thebeauty of fitness, or propriety.

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Of VARIETY.

T T O W great a share variety has in producing beauty*“■ A may be seen in the ornamental part of nature. 5 "The shapes and colours of plants, flowers, leaves, the‘ paintings in butterflies wings, shells, &c. seem of littleother intended use, than that of entertaining the eyewith the pleasure of variety. - < ;

All the senses delight in it, and equally are averse tosameness. The ear is as much offended with one evencontinued note, as the eye is with being fix’d to a point,or to the view of a dead wall. . ’ '

Yet when the eye is glutted with a fuccestion of va-riety, it finds relies in a certain degree of sameness; andeven plain space becomes agreeable, and properly intro-duced, and contrasted with variety, adds to it morevariety.

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