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ceptions may indeed be produced, as for 

 instance the Moses of Parmeggiano, so 

 highly, and so justly admired by the poet 

 Gray ; that, hke all his figures, is of a more 

 lengthened proportion, and the body thin- 

 ner Ithan those of tlie other masters whom I 

 have mentioned ; but the limbs have the 

 same fulness of form in a very high degree. 

 It must be remembered, also, that expres- 

 sion of countenance, energy of action, and 

 many other circumstances will give to the 

 human figure, what cannot be given to a^ 

 building. 



But the effects of art are never so well 

 illustrated) as by similar effects in nature : 

 and, therefore, the best illustration of build- 

 ings, is by what has most analogy to them 

 — the forms and characters of rocks ; in 

 which it can hardly be doubted, that mas- 

 siveness is a most efficient cause of gran- 

 deur. 



Where the summit of such massive rocks 

 runs in a parallel line, and the breaks and 

 projections lower down are slightly marked, 

 both the first impression is less strong, and 



