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deformity, in any strong degree, would 

 probably cause the same sort, of action in 

 the beholder, as in Hogarth's musician ; by 

 making him afraid to trust singly to those 

 means of exclusion which nature has placed 

 over the sight. 



The picturesque, when mixed with the 

 sublime, or the beautiful, has been already 

 considered : it will be found as frequently 

 mixed with ugliness ; and when so mixed 

 will appear to be perfectly consistent with 

 all that has been mentioned of its effects 

 and qualities. Ugliness, like beauty, in 

 itself is not picturesque, for it has, simply 

 considered, no strongly marked features : 

 but when the last-mentioned character is 

 added either to beauty or to ugliness, they 

 become more striking and varied ; and 

 whatever may be the sensations they ex- 

 cite, they always, by means of that addi- 

 tion, more strongly attract the attention. 

 We are amused and occupied by ugly ob- 

 jects, if they be also picturesque, just as 

 we are by a rough, and in other respects 



