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may indeed improve, but never VjHI fu;iply. A rhind 

 thus adorned, would avail nothing; nay, perliaps would 

 be unfriendly to him who would dwell among the pure 

 abftraclions of mathematics. Tt is enough to fay on 

 this fubjeft, that coolnefs, and aftivity of mind, confti- 

 tute the philofopher ; fire and feeling, the poet. It is 

 not fo proper therefore to term judgment and imagina.- 

 tion dillinft faculties, as t lie fame faculty, or in gene- 

 ral, mirid impreflcd with different qualities. 



Invention, or the power of creation, has been com- 

 monly confidered as the diftinguifliing charafteriftic of 

 iraafrination : but this mnft be underftood in a certain 

 fenfe. A poet, or' painter, may imagine a landfcape, 

 which for beauty of colouring, and exacl dilpofition of 

 parts, will exceed 'whatever is to be found Jn nature, 

 and produce an aggregate, or one complex idea, which 

 in itfelf is new; but to this, creation is limited. The 

 objefts of which it is compofed are all familiar ; the 

 ihepherd and his flock, the river, the mountain, and 

 the tree. 



'But it is not fo much the power of extending be- 

 yond the common appearances of nature, and exhibit- 

 ing pictures of original dclign, which characterize tliis 

 faculty, as the nature of thofe piftui'es which it exhi- 

 bits : its fphere is among wliat is magnificent and beau- 

 tiful in matter, or what is heroic and amiable in mind ; 

 its bufinefs is to feile with whatever is aftonifhing, of 

 mftt with whRtever is amiable ; for judgment may alfo, 

 in its own fphere, among qualities znd relations, difcover 

 many new aggregates, and many new combinations, 

 the one however with more fplendor and extravagance, 

 the other with more fobriety and truth. Perhaps in 

 this refpe£t the work, of Locke is an edifice, though 

 lefs glaring, yet conftructed with as much fertility of 

 invention, and confiftency of deiign, as that of Hotner. 

 It has been ali'erted that the poet is at liberty 

 to tranfg'efs the lav/s of nature, or contradict its com- 



