Charli-hailagen

Gloucester.

THE

Analysis of Beauty.

WRITTEN

WITH A VIEW OF FIXING THE FLUCTUATING

IDEAS OF TASTE

BY WILLIAM HOGARTH.

ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS.

A NEW EDITION,

PRINTED VERBATIM FROM THE ORIGINAL WORK, THE PAGES OF WHICH

ARE HERE RETAINED.

VARIETY

So vary'd he, and of bis tortuous train
Curl'd many a wanton wreath, in sight of Eve,
To lure her eye.

MILTON

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR R. SCHOLEY, 46, PATERNOSTER ROW;

By T. Davison, Lombard Street, Whitefriars.

1810.

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INTRODUCTION. The use and advantage of considering solid

objects as only thin shells composed of lines, like the outer

coat of an onion

CHAP. I. Of Fitness

II. Of Variety

III. Of Uniformity, Regularity, or Symmetry

IV. Of Simplicity, or Distinctness

V. Of Intricacy

VI. Of Quantity

VII. Of Lines

VIII. Of what sort of parts and how pleasing forms

are composed

IX. Of Compositions with the waving line.

X. Of Compositions with the serpentine line

XI. Of Proportion

XII. Of Light and Shade, and the manner in which

objects are explained to the eye by them

XIII. Of Composition with regard to Light, Shade,

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