Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Bearb.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

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farther, and fuppofe hardly any mark of
eyebrow ; — the hair, from the lightnefs of
its colour, and from the filky foftnefs of its
quality, giving fcarce any idea of rough-
nefs ;—the complexion of a pure and almoft
tranfparent whitenefs, with hardly a tinge
of red ;—the eyes of the mildeft blue, and
the expreffion equally mild,—you would
then approach very nearly to irffipidity, but
itill without deftroying beauty; on the
contraiy, fuch a form, vrhen irradiated by a
mind of equal fweetnefs and purity, united
with fenfibility, has fomething angelic; and
feems farther removed from what is earthly
and material. This ffiews how much foft-
nefs, fmoothnefs, and delicacy, even when
carried to an extreme degree, are congemal
to beauty : on the other hand it muil be
owned, fhat where the only agreement be-
tween fuch a form and the foul which inha-

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