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in as wild extreme as the fuppofed analogy 

 between the meafures of poetry, and the 

 time of mufic, had been unfuccefsfully ma- 

 thematical. 



A pleafing inftance of paternal eulogy 

 occurs in this Interlude concerning the 

 ingenious difcovery on the harmony of co- 

 lours, by Dr. Darwin of Shrewfbury. The 

 demonftrated exiftence of that harmony 

 gives, as our Poet juftly obferves, Mufic 

 and Painting undoubted right to borrow 

 metaphors from each other; " Muficians, 

 to fpeak of the brilliancy of founds, and 

 the light and made of a concerto ; and 

 Painters, of the harmony of colours and 

 " the tone of a picture ;" but, when he 

 feeks to extend in our fenforium thefe real 

 affinities between the nature of colours 

 and of mufical founds, into an equal re- 

 lationlhip between the poetical and the 

 mufical meafures, he becomes incompre- 

 henfible to thofe who know the nature of 



each 



