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65) 62 But the pleasure it gives the eye is even livelier when in motion. I can never forget the frequent and strong attention I paid to it when I was very young, and that its beguiling movement gave me the same kind of sensation that I have since felt at seeing a countrydance. It is probable, though, that perhaps the latter might be somewhat more engaging, particularly when my eye eagerly pursued a favourite dancer, through all the windings of the figure, who at the time was as bewitching to the sight as the imaginary ray we were speaking of, dancing with her all the time.

Another advantage of considering objects thus merely as shells composed of lines is that by these means we obtain the true and full idea of what is called the outlines of a figure, which has been confined within limits which are too narrow, by taking it only from drawings on paper. Such as in the example of the sphere given above, every one of the imaginary circular threads has a right to be considered as an outline of the sphere, as well as those which divide the half that is seen, from that which is not seen; and if the eye is supposed to move regularly round it, each of these threads will succeed as equally as any another in the office of outlines in the narrow and limited sense of the word – and the instant any one of these threads, during this motion of the eye, comes into sight on one side, its opposite thread is lost and disappears on the other.

These seeming faults, which show the superior anatomical knowledge, as well as judgement of the ancients, are not to be found in its leaden imitations near London’s Hyde Park. These saturnine geniuses imagined they knew how to correct such apparent disproportions. These few examples may be sufficient to give an idea of what I mean, and would have understood, by the beauty of fitness, or propriety. Of Variety How great a share variety has in producing beauty may be seen in the ornamental part of nature.

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