EDINBURGH: LONDON. M,DCCLXXXVIII. 7 26.1940 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 some measure be imitated by music ;, but for the most part music, like architecture, is productive of originals. Language copies not from nature, more than mụfic or architec-' țure; unless, where, like music, it is imitative of found or motion. Thus, in the description of particular sounds, language sometimes furnisheth words, which, beside their customary power of exciting A 2 |