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a disagreeable mind, provided it has a 

 marked and peculiar character ; without it, 

 mere outward ugliness, or mere inward rude- 

 ness, are simply disagreeable. An ugly man 

 or woman, with an aquiline nose, high cheek 

 bones, beetle brows, and strong lines in 

 every part of the face, is, from these pic- 

 turesque circumstances, which might all be 

 taken away without destroying ugliness, 

 much more strikingly ugly, than a man with 

 no more features than an oyster. It is ug- 

 liness of this kind which may very justly 

 be styled picturesque ugliness ; and it is 

 that which has been most frequently repre- 

 sented on the canvas. Those who have 

 been used to admire such picturesque 

 ugliness in painting, will look with plea- 

 sure (for we have no other word to ex- 

 press the degree, or character of that 

 sensation) at the original in nature; and 

 one cannot think slightly of the power and 

 advantage of that art, which makes its ad- 

 mirers often gaze with such delight on some 

 ancient lady, as by the help of a little 



