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vol.1 p.84
The sources of deformity in the mountain-line will
easily suggest those of beauty. If the line swells
easily to an apex, and yet by irregular breaks, which may be
varied in a thousand modes, it must be pleasing.
And yet abruptness itself is sometimes a source of
beauty, either when it is in contrast with other parts of
the line; or when rocks, or other objects, account naturally
for it.
The same principles, on which we seek for beauty in
single mountains, will help us to find it in a
combination of them. Mountains in composition
are considered as single objects, and follow the same
rules. If they break into mathematical, or fantastic forms,
- if they join heavily together in lumpish shapes - if they
fall into each other at right-angles - or of their lines run
parallel - in all these cases, the combination will be more
or less disgusting: and a converse of these will of course
be agreeable.
Having drawn the lines, which the mountains should
form, let us next fill them up, and vary them with tints.
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