MEMOIRS OF 



much more ferious grace from her choir 

 than fhe had done in the preceding Cantos, 

 and it becomes her well, from the more 

 fombre nature of it's recent themes. 



Alike ingenious and juft are the critical 

 obfervations with which this third Inter- 

 lude commences ; they are on the relation 

 between the arts of Poetry and Painting. 

 In theprogreft of it's ftri&ures Dr. Darwin 

 has not fucceeded fo well. When he 

 would eftablifh affinity between the mea- 

 fures of metrical and muiical competition, 

 it was owing to his total want of know- 

 ledge in muiical fcience that he is vifionary, 

 abftrufe, and^ incomprehenfible. The in- 

 itances he gives of fancied triple and com- 

 mon time in our verfe, by no means fup- 

 port his theory, after all the pains which 

 can be taken to comprehend it by thofe who 

 understand both the arts. His fuggefted 

 poffibility of luminous harmony, accordant 

 to that which is vocal, feems metaphyfical 



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