The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste (1753)
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Reeves, John, d. 1767 · London : Printed by J. Reeves for the author and sold by him at his house in Leicester-Fields · leaf 77
nd entertainment in the fame tafte. CHAP. IX. Of Composition with the Wav i n g-L i n e. TpHERE is fcarce a room in any houfe whatever,where one does not fee the waving-line employd infome way or other. How inelegant would the fhapesof all our moveables be without it ? how very plain… … C1,j,j„.J r>i./rui;J .Il./lAM./i./ /r//l r!H.y,tr//,, /far. 4j*/-.ij ,ama/m.,/r. M./ -iAir/i<im,iit. . ANA LY S I S of B E A U T Y. 49 Though all forts of waving-lines are ornamental,when properly applied; yet, flri&ly fpeaking, there isbut one precife line, properly to be called the line…
