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would destroy beauty, yet he might create 

 character; and something grand or pic- 

 turesque, might be produced by such a 

 trial. But let him take the contrary me- 

 thod, let him clog and fill up all those 

 nicely marked variations of which beauty 

 is the result, ugliness, and that only must 

 be the consequence. Should he proceed 

 still further with his experiment, should he 

 twist the mouth, make the nose awry, of a 

 preposterous size, and place warts and car- 

 buncles upon it, or wens and excrescencies 

 on other parts of the face, he would then 

 graft deformity upon ugliness. 



Deformity is to ugliness, what pic- 

 turesqueness is to beauty; though dis- 

 tinct from it, and in many cases arising 

 from opposite causes, it is often mistaken 

 for it, often accompanies it, and greatly 

 heightens its effect. Ugliness alone, is 

 merely disagreeable ; by the addition of 

 deformity, it becomes hideous ; by that of 

 terror it may become sublime. All these 

 are mixed in the 



Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademplum. 



Deformity in itself, however, has no con- 



