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VOLUME II.

EDINBURGH:

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CHAP. XVIII.

BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE,

Fall 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 some measure be imitated by mufic; but for the most part music, like architecture, is productive of originals. Language copies not from nature, more than music or architecture; unless, where, like music, it is imitative of found or motion. Thus, in the description of particular founds, language sometimes furnisheth words, which, beside their customary power of exciting

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