4 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



is, the ftraight line with the fpherical form, the 

 mod harmonic of all contrafls refults from it. 



The fame relations are to be found in the eyes, 

 the forms of which combine Mill more the harmo- 

 nic elementary exprefiions ; as it was fit the chief 

 of all the organs mould do. They are two globes, 

 fringed on the lids with eye-lafhes, radiating with 

 divergent pencil-ftrokes, which form with them a 

 moft delightful contraft, and prefent a flriking 

 confonance with the Sun, after which they feem to 

 have been modelled, having, like that orb, a fphe- 

 rical figure, encircled with divergent rays, in the 

 eye-lafhes; having a movement of felf-rotation, 

 and poffefling the power, like him, of veiling 

 themfelves in clouds, by means of their lids. 



The fame elementary harmonies may be traced 

 in the colours of the head, as well as in it's forms; 

 for we have in the face, the pure white exhibited 

 in the teeth and in the eyes ; then the fhades of 

 yellow, which diffolve into it's carnation, as the 

 Painters well know ; after that the red, the emi- 

 nently excellent colour, which glows on the lips 

 and on the cheeks. You farther remark the blue 

 of the veins, and fometimes that of the eye-balls; 

 and, finally, the black of the hair which, by it's 

 oppofition, gives relief to the colours of the face, 



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