The Analysis of Beauty

"The ear is as much offended with one even continued note, as the eye is with being fix'd to a point, or to the view of a dead wall.

"[3] In contrast, our senses find relief in discovering a certain amount of "sameness" within a varietal experience.

The third notion of regularity is understood as a form of "composed variety": it only pleases us when it is suggestive to fitness.

Intricacy is a strange principle in that it does not directly follow from the formal behaviour of a beautiful object.

Quantity, finally, is associated with the notion of the sublime, which, when Hogarth's book appeared, was not yet entirely distinguished from the apprehension of beauty.

He recognises a great quantity to have an aesthetic effect on the beholder without the necessity of a varietal or fitting form.