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Ch. XVIII. exciting ideas, refemble by their foftnefs or harfhnefs the founds defcribed; and there are words which, Jdj the celerity or llownefs of pronunciation, have fome refemblance to the motion they lignify. The imitative power of words goes one Hep farther: the loftinefs of fome words makes them proper fymbols of lofty ideas; a rough fubjedl is imitated by harfh-founding words ;and words of many fyllables pronounced flow andy fmooth, are expreffive of grief and melancholy. Words have a feparate ef Fedl on the mind, abl ftrading from their iignification and from their imitative power: they are more or lefs agreeable to the ear, by the fulnefs, fweetnefs, faintnefs, or roughnefs of their tones. Thefe are but faint beauties, being known to thofe only who have more than ordinary acutenefs of perception. Language pof Tefleth a beauty fuperior greatly in degree, of which we are eminently feniible when a thought is communicated A with perfpicuity and fprightlinefs. This beauty of language, ariling from its pover of expreffing thought, is apt to be confounded with the beauty of the thought itfelf: the beauty of thought, tranfferred to the expreffion, makes it appear more beautiful .B ut thefe beauties, if we wifh to think Chap. 2. part i.fe t. 5. Demetrius Phalereus (of Elocution, feft. 75.) makes the fame obfervation.
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