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Ch. X. A N D PROPRIETY. 33g
serious and important subjeft admits not much or-
nament 4 ; nor a subjeft that of itself is extreme-
ly beautiful : and a subjeft that fills the mind with
its loftiness and grandeur, appears best in a dress
altogether plain.
To a person of a mean appearance , gorgeous
apparel is unsuitable ; which , beside the incon-
gruity , {hows by contrast the meanness os appear-
ance in the strongest light. Sweetness os look
and manner requires simplicity of dress joined with
the greatest elegance. A stately and majestic air
requires sumptuous apparel, which ought not to
be gaudy, nor crowded with little ornaments. A
woman of consummate beauty can bear to be
highly adorned, and yet shdws bestm a plain dress "
——---For loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorn’d , adorn’d the molt.
ThomfonS Autumn. 208*
Congruity regulates not only the quantity 4)f or-
nament, but also the kind. The decorations of a
4 Contrary to this rule , the introduction to the third
volume of the Charatteriftics, is a continued chain of me-
taphors : these in such profusion are too florid for the
subjeiil , and have beside the bad essFed of removing our
attention from the principal subjeft, to fix it upon splen-
did trifles,.
Y 2
serious and important subjeft admits not much or-
nament 4 ; nor a subjeft that of itself is extreme-
ly beautiful : and a subjeft that fills the mind with
its loftiness and grandeur, appears best in a dress
altogether plain.
To a person of a mean appearance , gorgeous
apparel is unsuitable ; which , beside the incon-
gruity , {hows by contrast the meanness os appear-
ance in the strongest light. Sweetness os look
and manner requires simplicity of dress joined with
the greatest elegance. A stately and majestic air
requires sumptuous apparel, which ought not to
be gaudy, nor crowded with little ornaments. A
woman of consummate beauty can bear to be
highly adorned, and yet shdws bestm a plain dress "
——---For loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorn’d , adorn’d the molt.
ThomfonS Autumn. 208*
Congruity regulates not only the quantity 4)f or-
nament, but also the kind. The decorations of a
4 Contrary to this rule , the introduction to the third
volume of the Charatteriftics, is a continued chain of me-
taphors : these in such profusion are too florid for the
subjeiil , and have beside the bad essFed of removing our
attention from the principal subjeft, to fix it upon splen-
did trifles,.
Y 2