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to smoothness and symmetry; and where 

 in them, or mother objects these last qua- 

 lities prevail, the result of the whole is 

 justly called beautiful. 



In our own species, objects merely pic- 

 turesque are to be found among the wan- 

 dering tribes of gypsies and beggars; who 

 in all the qualities which give them that 

 character, bear a close analogy to the wild 

 forester and the worn out cart-horse, 

 and again to old mills, hovels, and other 

 inanimate objects of the same kind. — 

 More dignified characters, such as a Beli- 

 sarius, or a. Marius in age and exile*, 

 have the same mixture of picturesqueness 

 and of decayed grandeur, as the venera- 

 ble remains of the magnificence of past 

 ages. 



If we ascend to the highest order of 

 created beings, as painted by the grandest 

 of our poets, they, in their state of glory 

 and happiness, raise no ideas but those of 

 beauty and sublimity; the picturesque, as 



* The noble picture of Salvator E.osa at Lord Town- 

 shend's, which in the print is called Belisarius, has been 

 thought to be a Marius among the ruins of Carthage. 



