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ANALYSIS of BEAUTY. 
pleafing manner along the continuity of its variety, if I 
may be allowed the expretlion; and which by its twift- 
ing fo many different ways, may be faid to inclofe (tho' 
but a fingle line) varied contents; and therefore all its 
variety cannot be exprefs'd on paper by one continued 
line, without the affiflance of the imagination, or the 
help of a figure; fee * where that fort of proportion'd, Fig.z6. 
1Tp. 
winding line, which will hereafter be call'd the precife 
ferpentine line, or line of grace, is reprefented by a fine 
wire, properly twifted round the elegant and varied 
figure of a cone. 
C H   A  P.   VIII. 
Of what fort of PARTS, and how PLEASING FORMS are 
compofid. 
T    HUS far having endeavoured to open as large an 
idea as poflible of the power of variety, by having 
partly fhewn that thofe lines which have moft variety 
in themfelves, contribute moft towards the produdion 
of beauty; we will next thew how lines may be put 
together, fo as to make pleafing figures or compofitions. 
In order to be as clear as poffible, we will give a few 
examples of the moft familiar and eafy fort, and let 
them ferve as a clue to be purfued in the imagination: 
I fay in the imagination chiefly, for the following me- 
thod is not meant always to be put in pra&ice, or fol- 
low'd in every cafe, for indeed that could hardly be, 
and