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Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 / The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste
(1753)
Chap. VI: of quantity, pp. 29-37
Page 29
.ANALYSIS of BEAUTY. forming-to the fhape of the reft of the hair it is pin'd over, is extremely pidurefque. Their thus interlacing :the hair in diffind varied quantities is an artful way of preferving as much of intricacy, as is beautiful. CH A P. VI. Of t UA TITr. FORM S of imagnitude, although ill-fhaped, will however, on account of their vaftnefs, draw our 'attention and raife' our admiration. Huge fhapeefs rocks have a pleafing kind of horror in them, and' the ,wide ocean awes us with its -vaft contents; but when forms of beauty are prefented to the eye in large quantities, the pleafure increafes on the .mind, and horror is!foften'd into reverence. WoW folemfn and pleafing are groves of high grown trees, great chtirches, and palaces? has not even a fmgle fpreading oak, grown to maturity, acquir'd the characer :of the veferable .oak? Windior caffle is a noble inflance of the elffedA of quantity. The hugenefs of its few diftin& parts -frikes the eye With- ufcommon grandeur at a diflance, as well ,as nigh. It is quantity, with fimplicity, which makes it one of the fineft objeds in the kingdom, tho' void of any regular or&r of architedure. The
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