2 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



This flight fketch prefents to us, at firft glance, 

 the five harmonic terms of the elementary ge- 

 neration of forms. The hair exhibits lines ; 

 the nofe the triangle ; the head the fphere ; the 

 face the oval ; and the void under the chin the 

 parabola. The neck which, like a column, fuf- 

 tains the head, exhibits, likewife, the very agree- 

 able harmonic form of the cylinder, compofed of 

 the circular and quadrilateral. 



Thefe forms, however, are not traeed in a ftiff 

 and geometrical manner, but imperceptibly run 

 into each other, and mutually blend, as the parts 

 of the fame whole ought to do. Thus the hair 

 does not fall in ftraight lines, but, in flowing ring- 

 lets, harmonizes with the oval of the face. The 

 triangle of the nofe is neither acute, nor does it 

 prefent a right angle; but, by the undulatory 

 fwelling of the noflrils, prefents a harmony with 

 the heart-form of the mouth, and, Hoping toward 

 the forehead, melts away into the cavities of the 

 eyes. The fpheroid of the head, in like manner, 

 amalgamates with the oval of the face. The fame 

 thing holds with refpect to the other parts, as 

 Nature employs, in their general combination, the 

 roundings of the forehead, of the cheeks, of the 

 chin, of the neck, that is,, portions of the mod 

 beautiful of harmonic expreffions, which is the 

 fphere. 



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