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line of beauty en · NOUN
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(qualifier:fine arts) A curved line that is supposedly inherently beautiful. It is represented in different ways by different authors, although usually as a kind of elongated S (like the one in William Hogarth’s painting in this entry).
Every line is the line of beauty; it is only fumble and bungle which cannot draw a line. This only is ugliness. That is not a line which doubts and hesitates in the midst of its course.
1880, William Blake, “Public Address and Memoranda by Blake of his mode of Engraving”, in Life of William Blake, volume 2:
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wikipedia: William Hogarth