4$ STUDIES OF NATURE. 



placed differently, to produce directly oppofite 

 effects. 



If Nature, by introducing certain agreeable har- 

 monies into fcenes of difcord, redoubles their con- 

 fufion, fuch as the green colour of the rocks of 

 the Jewefs, or the azure, in the tempefts off the 

 Cape, (he frequently throws in a difcordance, in 

 concerts the moil delightful, for the purpofe of 

 heightening the pleafurable effect. Thus, a noify 

 water-fall precipitating itfelf into a tranquil val- 

 ley; or a rugged and duiky rock afcending in 

 the midft of a verdant plain, enhances the beauty 

 of a landfcape. Thus a mole on a beautiful face 

 gives it additional vivacity. Skilful Artifts have 

 fometimes happily imitated thofe harmonic con- 

 trails. Callot, when he intended to aggravate the 

 horror of his infernal fcenery, introduced, amidft 

 his demons, the head of a fine woman on the car- 

 cafe of an animal. On the contrary, the moft re- 

 nowned Grecian Painters, in order to render Fems 

 more interefling, reprefented her with a flight 

 fquint in her eyes. 



Nature employs offenfive contrafts only for the 

 purpofe of chafing Man away from fome perilous 

 fituation. In all the reft of her Works, (lie em- 

 ploys only harmonic mediums. I muft not involve 



myfelf 



