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Show 172 THE CODE OF TERPSICHORE. ture, let both the composer and performer of Ballets make them their study and model. The effect produced on the person who beholds a fine picture is more universal and striking, than that on him who reads a piece of poetry; for, our mind is more quickly and powerfully affected by impressions received through the sight, than by those conveyed through the ear and the memory. CHAPTER X. ON ORDER. " des proportions la savante beaute A joint la sym£trie a la variete." DELUXE. IT is requisite that a perfect harmony should pervade the parts of every production. Every circumstance should be appropriately arranged, confusion avoided, and an exact order established throughout. That analogy which should subsist between each object must not, however, confound the traits of distinction, for if this analogy should cause a universal resemblance, the composition would then become void of that variety ever observable in nature, and the want of which causes monotony. Order excludes improprieties, transpositions of subjects, and a wild disproportion of parts. Every circumstance of a composition should have a mutual and natural relation to each other; and all should unite in forwarding the principal action, |