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different from love; and thence the poet, who 

 most studied all that belongs to love and 

 beauty, has pronounced, that majesty and 

 love cannot dwell together. If love cannot 

 dwell with majesty, it certainly can as little 

 dwell with that severity which arises from 

 the more manly virtues and habits ; especi- 

 ally w r hen accompanied with something ap- 

 proaching to manly strength and vigour of 

 body. Cupid, therefore, tells his mother 

 that he feels a dread of Minerva from her 

 terrible and masculine appearance ;* and 

 such must always be the effect of any mix- 

 ture of the sublime with the beautiful ; but 

 the goddess of love, is likewise the goddess 

 of perfect unmixed beauty. 



In point of beauty, singly considered, the 

 female form has always had the preference ; 

 and to that Mr. Burke's principles of beauty 

 most strictly apply ; it may only be doubt- 

 ed whether he be right in saying, without 

 any restriction, that beautiful objects are 



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 *?fytxu,— Luciai)* 19th Dial, of the Cods, 



