Mr. WALPOLE:    Then what’s more tiring, an endless selection of constant and ever changing variety or an aesthetic of consistent sameness?

Mr. HOGARTH:    When the eye is glutted with a succession of variety, it finds relief in a certain degree of sameness; and even plain space becomes agreeable, an d contrasted with variety adds to it more variety. Consider how calming it can be to look for long periods of time at a murky stain on a white wall, or for that matter the interest shown by the shipwrecked at the site of land.