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

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allow the utmoft liberty of opinion, and judg-
ment, we fhall neverthelefs infer, that to have
the natural tafte juftly improved, and culti-
vated, is a very delirable advantage; and as
there appears to be a foundation in nature for
the principles adduced above, we fhall continue
to think that there cannot be bea< ty without
fitness, fince unfitnefs occafions difsuft ; nor
without variety, fmce perpetual repetition is
tirefome; nor without symmetry, fmce cnaocic
confufion is diffracting.

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