OF CRITICIS M THE SEVENTH EDITION. WITH THE AUTHOR'S LAST CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. VOLUME II. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR JOHN BELL AND WILLIAM CREECH; LONDON. M,DCC,LXXXVIII. 126.1940 O CHA P. XVIII. BEAUTY OF LANGUA G E, F all the fine arts, painting only and fculpture 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 description of particular founds, language fometimes furnisheth words, which, befide their cuftomary power of A 2 exciting |