MEMOIRS OP 



the eye. The moral epithet pkafant, 

 excites fenfation, while the pifturefque 

 epithet, Jhadowy, has all the truth, the 

 grace, and power of the pencil. It is that 

 charm on the nerves to which Mr. Fellowes 

 fo well applies the word, fenfation. It 

 feems a new term in criticifm, and is ufe- 

 ful to exprefs what pathos would exprefs 

 too ftrongly, and therefore with lefs accu- 

 racy. Pathos is the power of affecling the 

 heart ; by fenfation is meant that of acling 

 upon the nerves. 



Beneath their torpor, the heart, ,or the 

 paffions, cannot be affected ; but the nerves 

 may be awakened to lively, or penfive plea- 

 fure, by compofition which, not exciting 

 any pofitive paffion, may not act upon the 

 heart in a degree to juftify the application 

 of the word, pathetic ; and for this gentler, 

 fubtler, and more evanefcent influence, 

 which almoft imperceptibly touches the 



paffions 



