...enthusiastically upon their value in his " Analysis of Beauty." "The eye," he observes in one passage, " enjoys winding walks and serpentine rivers, and all sorts of objects whose forms are composed principally of what I call the waving and serpentine lines — of a certain intricacy...

...variety it pleases the eye " by giving it the power of enjoying with ease." (5) Intricacy. The eye enjoys "winding walks and serpentine rivers, and all sorts of objects whose forms are composed of waving and serpentine lines." " Intricacy of form," he says, " is that peculiarity...

...implanted in our natures. . . . Even cats will risk the losing of their prey to chase it over again. . . . The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks and serpentine rivers. . . . Intricacy of form, therefore, I shall define to be that peculiarity in the lines which compose...

...increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleased, when that is most distinctly unravelled! The eye has this sort of enjoyment in winding walks, and serpentine.../ Intricacy in form, therefore, I shall define to • 3e that peculiarity in the lines, which compose it, h,-it leads the eye a wanton kind of chase,...

..."Forms of most grace have the least of the straight line in them" (p. 38). Hogarth waxes enthusiastic: The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks...whose forms, as we shall see hereafter, are composed generally of what, I call the waving and serpentine lines. Intricacy in form, therefore,.! shall define...

...serpentine rivers, and all sorts of objects, whose forms, as we shall see hereafter, are composed generally of what, I call the waving and serpentine lines. Intricacy...therefore, . I shall define to be that peculiarity in lines, which compose it, that leads the eye a wanton kind ofchace, and from the pleasure that gives...

...Jefferson in his study of English gardens. The former wrote, "The eye has . . . enjoyment in winding walls, and serpentine rivers, and all sorts of objects, whose...principally of what I call the waving and serpentine lines." Jefferson frequently noted his own distaste for straight lines in gardens. At Stowe, he wrote, "the...

...the mind: The active mind is ever bent to be employ'd. Pursuing is the business of our lives . . . The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks, and serpentine rivers . . . that lead the eye a wanton kind of chace, and from the pleasure that it gives the mind, intitles...

...enhances the pleasure, and makes what would else be toil and labour, become sport and recreation. ... The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks,...hereafter, are composed principally of what I call the iraviw'jand serpentine lines. Intricacy in form, therefore, I shall define to be that peculiarity in...

...ever increases as the plot thickens, and ends most pleas'd, when that is most distinctly unravell'd? The eye hath this sort of enjoyment in winding walks, and serpentine rivers, and all sorts of objects . . . composed principally of what I call the waving and serpentine lines. Intricacy in form, therefore,...