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CRITICISM.

THE SEVENTH EDITION.

WITH THE

AUTHOR'S LAST CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

VOLUME II.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR JOHN BELL AND WILLIAM CREECH;
AND FORT. CADELL, G. G. J.ANDJ.ROBINSON,

LONDON.

M,DCC.LXXXVIII,

1133

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ELEMENTS

OF

CRITICISM

CHAP. XVIII.

BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE.

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F all the fine arts, painting only and sculpture are in their nature imitative.

An ornamented field is not a copy or imitation of nature, but nature itself embellished. Architecture is productive of originals, and copies not from nature. Sound and motion may in fome measure be imitated by mufic; but for the moft part mufic, like architecture, is productive of originals. Language copies not from nature, more than mufic or architecture; unless, where, like mufic, it is imitative of found or motion. Thus, in the defcription of particular founds, language fometimes furnifheth words, which, befide their customary power of exciting

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