"Now in hand, and will be published in about two months' time, a short addenda or supplement to the Analysis of Beauty, wherein, by the doctrine of varying lines, it will plainly be shown that a man who had never seen or heard of Roman architecture might, by adhering to these lines, produce new and original forms.
"The number of pompous and expensive books of architecture which have been lately published, consist of little more than examples of the variations that were made among the ancients; and nice and useless disputes about which were the most elegant, without assigning any other reason for their choice than the authority of the columns they have measured, which gives them no other merit than that of mere pattern drawers."
[58] This quotation is from p. 130, and refers to two heads in the second plate, Nos. 108 and 9, one of which has a slight tendency to a smile, and the other has a broad grin. The head here copied, in point of character, comes between them.
[59] This is copied from the MS. of the Analysis, where he had made the drawings of the "Round and Square Heads," which he evidently intended to have introduced in his plate.
[60] "Cleop. Bear'st thou her face in mind?
Is't long or round?
"Mess. Round even to faultiness.
"Cleop. For the most part, they are foolish that are so."
[61] This truth is amply verified in the epistle above quoted:
"Oh, lasting as thy colours may they shine,
Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line!