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CRITICIS M.

VOLUME II.

The FIFTH EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

Printed for A. KINCAID & W. CREECH, and J. BELL,
Edinburgh; and for T. CADELL, London.

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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 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

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