STUDY X. 5 



es the vacuum of the neck detaches the forms of 

 the head. 



You will pleafe to obferve, that Nature employs 

 not, in decorating the human face, colours harfhly 

 oppofed ; but blends them, as fhe does the forms, 

 foftly and infenfibly into each other. Thus, the 

 white melts here into the yellow, and there into 

 the red. The blue of the veins has a greenifh 

 caft. The hair is rarely of a jet black ; but brown, 

 chefnut, flaxen, and, in general, of a colour into 

 which a flight tint of the carnation enters, in or- 

 der to prevent a violently harfh oppofition. You 

 will farther obferve, that as fhe employs fpherical 

 fegments in forming the mufcles which unite the 

 organs, and in order particularly to diftinguifh 

 thefe very organs, fhe makes ufe of red for the 

 fame purpofes. She has, accordingly, extended a 

 flight (hade of it to the forehead, which fhe has 

 ftrengthened upon the cheeks, and which (he has 

 applied pure and unmixed to the mouth, that or- 

 gan of the heart, where it forms a moil agreeable 

 contrail with the whitenefs of the teeth. The 

 union of this colour, with that harmonic form, is 

 the moft powerful confonance of beauty ; and it 

 is worthy of remark, that wherever the fpherical 

 forms fwell, there the red colour flrengthens, ex- 

 cept in the eyes. 



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