a very grazier-like, and material idea of 

 beauty it must fairly be owned : but still, 

 if a standard of shape (from whatever 

 cause) be acknowledged, and called beau- 

 tiful, any departure from that settled cor- 

 respondence and symmetry of parts, will 

 certainly, within that jurisdiction, be con- 

 sidered as an irregularity in the form, and 

 a consequent departure from beauty, how- 

 ever striking the object may be in its gene- 

 ral appearance. More marked and sudden 

 deviations from the general symmetry of 

 animals, whether arising from particular 

 conformation, from accident, or from the ef- 

 fects of age or disease, often very strongly 

 attract the painters notice, and are recorded 

 by him ; but they never can be thought to 

 make the object more beautiful : many of 

 these would, on the contrary, by most men 

 be called deformities, and not without 

 reason. I shall hereafter have occasion to 

 shew the connection, as well as the distinc- 

 tion that subsists between deformity and 

 picturesqueness. 



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