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then approach very nearly to insipidity, 

 but still without destroying beauty; on the 

 contrary, such a form, when irradiated by a 

 mind of equal sweetness and purity, united 

 with sensibility, has something angelic ; and 

 seems further removed from what is earthly 

 and material. This shews how much soft- 

 ness, smoothness, and delicacy, even when 

 carried to an extreme degree, are congenial 

 to beauty : on the other hand, it must be 

 owned, that where the onlv agreement be- 

 tween such a form and the soul which inha- 

 bits it, is want of character and animation, 

 nothing can be more completely vapid than 

 the whole composition. 



If we now return to the same point at 

 which we began, and corceive the eye- 

 brows more strongly maned ; the hair 

 rougher in its effect and quility ; the com- 

 plexion more dusky and ^ypsjy-like ; the 

 skin of a coarser grain, witl sonne moles on 

 it; a degree of cast in tin ejyes, but so 

 slight, as only to give archiesis and pecu- 

 liarity of countenance — this wiitlhout alter- 

 ing the proportion of the satiur es, would 



