102 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO in. 



Fond Fancy's eye recalls the form divine, 

 And TASTE sits smiling upon Beauty's shrine. 



" Where Egypt's pyramids gigantic stand, 

 And stretch their shadows o'er the shuddering sand; 

 Or where high rocks o'er ocean's dashing floods 

 Wave high in air their panoply of woods; 

 Admiring TASTE delights to stray beneath 

 With eye uplifted, and forgets to breathe; 

 Or, as aloft his daring footsteps climb, 

 Crests their high summits with his arm sublime. 23O 



we find, according to the ingenious idea of Hogarth, that the waving 

 lines of beauty were originally taken from the temple of Venus. 



With his arm sublime, 1. 230. Objects of taste have been generally 

 divided into the beautiful, the sublime, and the new ; and lately to 

 these have been added the picturesque. The beautiful so well ex- 

 plained in Hogarth's analysis of beauty, consists of curved lines and 

 smooth surfaces, as expressed in the preceding note; any object 

 larger than usual, as a very large temple or a very large mountain, 

 gives us the idea of sublimity; with which is often confounded the 

 terrific, and the melancholic: what is now termed picturesque in- 

 cludes objects, which are principally neither sublime nor beautiful, 

 but which by their variety and intricacy joined with a due degree of 

 regularity or uniformity convey to the mind an agreeable sentiment 

 of novelty. Many other agreeable sentiments may be excited by vi- 

 sible objects, thus to the sublime and beautiful may be ackle<l the 



