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borrowed from the fragrance of the fields and the melody of 

 the groves; and that even the more gross sensations of taste 

 form the subject of an ideal repast; in support of which, he 

 quotes some lines of a poetical description of the uondas of 

 the torrid zone, in nineteen lines of which there are only tliree 

 that allude indeed to the sense of taste, but denote none in 

 particular; they are the following: 



" Oh let me draio the cocoas bowl, 



And " Quick let me strip thee of thy spiny coat (the aiiana) 

 - ' ' ( " Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast With Jove." 



Cart the reader form any representation of cocoa milk, or of 

 the taste of a pine apple ? 



68. However it must be owned, that the words sweet, bit- 

 ter, fragrant, fetid, and such like epithets denoting objects 

 of taste or smell, please or disgust us respectively, but they 

 produce these effects, not by exciting corresponding ideas, 

 but by suggesting the recollection that these terms were ori- 

 ginally annexed, and are still applicable to sensations highly 

 agreeable or disagreeable, obtained through those senses ; as 

 was first remarked by Dr. Berkeley*, and afterwards by Mr. 

 Burke-f-, and allowed, though with some limitation, by pro- 

 fessor Stewart:}:. 



69. The terms then that denote the pleasures or pains of 

 the senses of taste, smell or touch afford notions of those 



pleasing 



• Introd. to Principles of Human Knowledge, § 20- Min. Philos. Dial. 7. § 8. 

 t Essay on the Sublime, &c. Part 5. § 3. and 4. 



* Elemtnls of the Philos. of the Mind, p. 502. 8to. 



