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cations of an improver, and may soon 

 ]earn the whole mystery of slopes and 

 hanging levels. 



If the principles of the beautiful, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Burke, and those of the 

 picturesque, according to my ideas, be just, 

 it seldom happens that those two qualities 

 are perfectly unmixed; and I believe, it 

 is for want of observing how nature has 

 blended them, and from attempting to 

 make objects beautiful by dint of smooth- 

 ness and flowing lines, that so much insi- 

 pidity has arisen. 



The most enchanting object the eye of 

 man can behold — that which immediately 

 presents itself to his imagination when 

 beauty is mentioned— that, in comparison 

 of which all other beauty appears tasteless 

 and uninteresting— is the face of a beauti- 

 ful woman; and there, where nature has 

 fixed the throne of beauty, the very seat 

 of its empire, observe how she has guarded 

 it, in her most perfect models, from its two 

 dangerous foes, insipidity and monotony. 



The eye-brows, and the eye-lashes, by 

 their projecting shade over the transparent 



