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otandeur and magnificence, it recedes from 



loveliness. 



As the eye borrows man}' of its sensa- 

 tions from the touch, so that again seems 

 to borrow others from the sight. Soft, 

 fresh, and beautiful colours, though " not 

 sensible to feeling as to sight," give us an 

 inclination to try their effect on the touch; 

 whereas, if the colour be not beautiful, 

 that inclination, I believe, is always di- 

 minished ; and, in objects merely pictu- 

 resque, and void of all beauty, is rarely 

 excited *. 



It has been observed in a former part, that 

 symmetry, which perfectly accords with the 

 beautiful, is in the same degree adverse to 

 the picturesque; and this circumstance forms 

 a strongly marked distinction between the 



* 1 have read, indeed, in some fairy tale, of a country, 

 where age and wrinkles were loved and caressed, and 

 youth and freshness neglected ; but in real life, I fancy, 

 the most picturesque old woman, however her admirer 

 may ogle her on that account, is perfectly safe from his 

 caresses. 



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