ELEMENTS O F CRITICIS M. VOLUME II. The FIFTH EDITION. EDINBURGH: Printed for A. KINCAID & W. CREECH, and J. BELL, F all the fine arts, painting only and 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 most part, music, 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 furnisheth words, which, befide their customary power of A 2 exciting |