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STRUCTURE QF SENTENCES.
or flow, violent or gentle, uniform or interrupted,,
eafy or accompanied with effort. ) Between found and
motion there is no natural affinity* ; yet in the imagi¬
nation there is a ftrong one ; as is evident from the
connedtion between mufic and dancing. The poet can
therefore give us a lively idea of the kind of motion, he
would defcribe, by the help of founds, which in our
imagination correfpond with that motion./ Long fyl-
lables naturally excite an idea of flow motion ;\as in this
line cf Virgil,
OlU int er fefe raagnu vi brachia tollunt.
A fucceflion of fhort fyllables gives the imprcffion of
quick motion as,
Sed fngit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.
The works of Homer and Virgil abound with in-
fiances of this beauty ; which are fo often quoted, and
jb well known, that it is unneceffary to produce them.
The third fet of ohjedls, which the found of words is
capable of repiefenting, confifts of emotions and paf-
fions of the mind. Between fenfe and found there ap¬
pears to be no natural refemblance. But, if the ar¬
rangement of fyllables by their found alone recall one
Jet of ideas more readily, than another ; and difpofe
the mind for entering into that affedlion, which the poet
intends to raife ; fuch arrangement may with propriety
! : faid to referable die fenfe. Thus, when pleafure, joy,