DEAL

(Fr.) In Painting, that beauty which ia irmtty and peculiarity found in nature I a species. All the ohjects which naexhibits to US have their blemishes and defects, though not capable of perceiving them; and it 1 ill of observing what any objects of the same kind have in common that it acquires the faculty of dis- ■ wants in particular. By such means the i of perfect nature, or what is called the See Ideal. BE U," TY. (Fr. beaute" ) In the Fine Arts, that result perfections whereof an object is suseeps the senses, and more particularly the i >r. With the painter and sculptor, nature, reby selecting from the most perfect oi the species, is ■■; hut with the architect the ci; the model of imitation. Some hare been seriously considered le a writer than Burke as consisting in smallne ,. delicacy, and the like; bat such speculations ird for notice here. The primary source of all arts is form; on that alone must the! If he wonld produce a work capable of pleas i loubt thai In painting colour is a Dandier works with many charms; but they to that great effect which form, unaided.Me. of producing on the mind. their nature might lead the artist to the invenatiful forms; and it was doubtle this fi which ted Bogarth, in his Analysis of Beauty, to p it of the serpentine line. But in (hearts iples are infinitely more extended: tor. from their propriety In one art. are strikingly ibsolntely absurd as sources of I we arrive at one general conclusion, that of them fitne for the purpose and proportion to efl beauty of line, and beauty of form. If this be so, no genendent on fitne and proportion laid down; and perhaps it would not be a difficult to them all those a ociations which seem to mnected with the subject in its effect on the mind. Alison, in his •!>'ganl E ays on the Nature and Principles lo he much Impre ed with the feeling i ive on this point; for he observes that " if there were ri^inal and independent beauty in any particular i, the preference ol this form would be early and decidedly marked both hi the language of children and the opinions of mankind.'' We trust it may not be irreverent article with a quotation which is as expre ive of our notions of beauty as resulting from form as the inspired writer who knew it to be true of qualities: " All flesh mi" flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men. another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another Is. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terory of the celestial is one, and the glory trial is another." nir.w lstor. [s. 153]