ELEMENTS O F CRITICIS M. CHA P. XVIII. BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE. O Fall the fine arts, painting only and sculpture are in their nature imitative. A field laid out with tafte, is not a copy or imitation of nature, but nature itself embellished. Architecture deals in originals, and copies not from nature. Sound and motion may in fome measure be imitated by mufic; but for the most part, mufic, like architecture, deals in originals. Language copies not from nature, more than mufic or architecture; unless where, like mufic, it is imitative of found or motion; in the defcription, for example, of particular founds, language fometimes furnisheth words, which, befide their customary power of exciting ideas, refemble by their foft A 2 nefs |