42. Beauty alone, fades to insipidity; and like possession cloys.

43. Grace is beauty in motion, or rather grace regulates the air, the

attitudes and movements of beauty.

44. Nature makes no parade of her means--hence all studied grace is

unnatural.

_Coroll._--The attitudes of Parmegiano are exhibitions of studied grace.

The grace of Guido is become proverbial, but it is the grace of the art.

45. All actions and attitudes of children are graceful, because they are

the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment--divested of

affectation, and free from all pretence.

_Coroll._--The attitudes and motions of the figures of Rafaelle are

graceful because they are poised by Nature.

46. Proportion, or symmetry, is the basis of beauty; propriety, of

grace.

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