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"Placed far amid the melancholy main," and swept bare by wintry-cold sea-breezes, said, "Yes! 'twas sublime, but sad; the loneliness Loaded thy heart, the desert tired thine eye." But how different the loneliness of a soft-waving prairie, soft even before the new grass springs; soft in outline, in coloring, in its whispering silence!
Who, in looking at the Venus de Medicis, asks whether she be tall or short? The bust and neck were so exquisitely moulded, that they reminded me of Burke's fanciful remark, viz., that our ideas of beauty originate in our love of the sex, and that we deem every object beautiful which is described by soft-waving lines, resembling those of the female neck and bosom.
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