O F CRITICISM. THE SEVENTH EDITION. WITH THE AUTHOR'S LAST CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. VOLUME II. EDINBURGH: LONDON. M,DCC.LXXXVIII, 1133 ELEMENTS OF CRITICISM CHAP. XVIII. BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE. Ο 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 A 2 |