...all, and which partakes equally of the activity of the Gladiator, of the delicacy of the Apollo, and the muscular strength of the Hercules ; for perfect...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient." In another place Sir Joshua adds : "Thus, among blades of grass or leaves of the same tree, though...

...Hercules. For perfect beauty in any species must combine all the characters which arc beautiful in tha: species. It cannot consist in any one to the exclusion...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is...

...perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the \ Apollo ; but in that form...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is...

...beauty in any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It can not consist in any one to the exclusion of the rest :...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is...

...species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It can not consist ill any one to the exclusion of the rest : no one, therefore,...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is...

...that perfect beauty must combine all the characters which are beautiful, and goes on by stating that it cannot consist in any one to the exclusion of the rest, but that no one must be predominant, nor any one deficient. I hinted to you, as you will recollect,...

...perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any one of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is...

...Hercules. For-. perfect -beauty. in. I any species must combine all the characters which are beau\Ji(ul in that species. It cannot consist in any one to the...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient. The knowledge of these different characters, and the power of separating and distinguishing them, is...

...any species must combine all the characters which are beautiful in that species. It cannot consist of any one to the exclusion of the rest : no one, therefore,...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient." But is this not reducing beauty in the human form to a cold, meaningless abstraction, almost to a mathematical...

...perfection of the human figure is not to be found in any of them. It is not in the Hercules, nor in the Gladiator, nor in the Apollo ; but in that form...must be predominant, that no one may be deficient.' — Vol. II. p. 64. Sir Joshua here supposes the distinctions of classes and character to be necessarily...