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when there are any marked irregularities in 

 the features combined with the qualities of 

 beauty, although such combinations have 

 often a wild variet\^ and playfulness, more 

 attractive perhaps than even beaut} 7 of a 

 more pure and unmixed kind, yet the dif- 

 ference is manifest, and the addition of the 

 term picturesque to that of beauty, most 

 accurately marks the distinction. 



As the same analogy, in a greater or less 

 degree, prevails throughout all the produc- 

 tions of nature and of art, it possibly may 

 not be too much to affirm, that the terms 

 which answer to beauty and beautiful in all 

 languages, however vaguely and licenti- 

 ously employed in common use, yet, in 

 their strict and proper sense, must have 

 nearly the same meaning : they must refer 

 in general to objects in their most perfect, 

 finished, and flourishing state ; and among 

 them, to tljose particular combinations of 

 form, which, from attentive and enlightened 

 observation and experience, have been dis- 

 covered to be more complete in those qua- 



