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massive ; and the edge of the sloping roof, 

 and that of the gravel walk, are also alike 

 incapable of receiving decorations. 



Mr. Burke, who has given us his ideas of 

 what constitutes the grand in buildings, has 

 not entered into particulars with respect to 

 the beautiful in objects of that class; but has 

 left us to collect its causes, as well as its dis- 

 tinction from the sublime in similar objects, 

 from the general tenor of his Essay. The 

 principles which he has there laid down 

 are so just, and are so happily explained 

 and enforced, that they may readily be ap- 

 plied to buildings, as to all other objects ; 

 though with certain exceptions and modi- 

 fications, which arise from the nature of 

 architecture. These chiefly regard waving 

 lines, the beauty of which was so enthusi- 

 astically admired, and so ingeniously set 

 forth by Hogarth f* and since more fully 

 considered and illustrated by Mr. Burke. 



* Hogarth had a most enthusiastic admiration of what he 

 called the line of beauty, and enthusiasm always leads to the 

 verge of ridicule, and seldom keeps totally within it. My 

 father was very much acquainted with him, and I remember 



