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and agreeable objetts are defcribed by one, who feels
his fubjedl ; the language naturally runs in fmooth, li*
quid, and flowing numbers. V
Namque ipfa decoram
Csefariem nato genetrix, lumenqne juventae
Purpureum, et Ixtos oculis afllarat honores.
Brifle and lively fenfations exaft quicker and more'
animated numbers, j -
Juvenum manus emicat ardeas
Littus in Hefperium.
Melancholy and gloomy' fubje&s are naturally ccn-i
nefted with flow meafures and long words.
In thofe deep folitudes and- awful cells.
Where heavenly penlive contemplation dwells.
Abundant inftances of this kind are fuggefted by a '
moderate acquaintance with good poets, either antient
or modem.
ORIGIN and NATURE of FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE.
JL IGURES may be defcribed to be that language,
which is prompted either by the imagination or paffions.
They are commonly divided by rhetoricians into two 'i'v
great clafles, figures of words, and figures of thought.