The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

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not have chofen the pine-apples for the two
terminations of the fides of the front of St.
Paul's: and perhaps the globe and crofs, thoy
a finely varied figure, which terminates the
dome, would not have had the preference of
fituation, if a religious motive had not been the
occafion.

<c Thus we fee fimplicity gives beauty even
to variety, as it makes it more eafily under-
flood, and fhould be ever ftudied in the works
of art, as it ferves to prevent perplexity in forms
of elegance.

<c The hair of the head is another very ob-
vious inftance, which, being defigned chiefly as
an ornament, proves more or lefs fo, according
to the form it naturally takes, or is put into by
art. The molt amiable in itfelf is. the flowing
curl 5 and the many waving and contrafted
turns of naturally intermingling locks ravifh
the eye with the pleafure of the purfuit, efpe-
cially when they are put in motion by a gentle
breeze. The poet knows it, as well as the
painter, and has defcribed the wanton ringlets
waving in the wind.

" And yet to (hew how excefs ought to be
avoided in intricacy, as well as in every other
principle, the very fame head of hair, wifped
and matted together, would make the moil

difagreeable