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that of anger, however dignified. In such 

 representations of him, his beauty might 

 have born the same relation to that of the 

 statue we possess, as the beauty of the 

 Guidian Venus did to different statues of 

 Juno or Minerva ; that is, would have had 

 less of awful and severe dignity, and more 

 of loveliness. We may be sure, also, that 

 beauty, and not dignity, was the prevailing 

 character of the Apollo. The highest idea 

 of dignity is found only in the father of 

 gods and men, in the Jupiter of Phidias or 

 Lysippus, of Homer or Virgil; whether lie 

 be represented in the terrible exercise of his 

 power, as bending his awful brow, and 

 shaking the heavens with his nod ; or with 

 that mild countenance, by which he dif- 

 fuses serenity through all nature. This 

 seems to shew that dignity, though it may 

 be united with youth, more properly belongs 

 to maturer age ; and that may be one rea- 

 son why the addition of it takes off, in some 



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