id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 51459 Hogarth, William The Analysis of Beauty Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste .txt text/plain 46204 1758 67 a serpent-like and flaming form: naturally those sort of lines have ways in a pleasing manner, as may be better seen by figure 43, in plate variety of lines, which serve to raise the ideas of bodies in the mind, parts, the eye is always better pleased on the account of variety. than a more elegant form: preparatory to which, let the figure [Fig. 14 ornamental kind: for which reason we shall call it the line of beauty. time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the When you would compose an object of a great variety of parts, let the beauty of distinctness of forms, lights, shades, and colours, by distances in lines belonging to form, would, in like manner, delight appearance by light, shade and colour, nature hath added another way After thus having form'd the idea of all movements being as lines, it ./cache/51459.txt ./txt/51459.txt