Jt)R. DARWIN. 



Poetry and Mufic are both progreflive, 

 Painting is ftationary, therefore the natural 

 union is between the two firft ; and pic- 

 tures can be worth nothing to the mufician 

 in his imitative art, in companion with 

 poetry, whofe paffions and fcenes are 

 changeful, often contracted, and always 

 proceeding. 



Again, the poetic Critic emerges into 

 truth and day-light, when he compares the 

 nature and privileges of the Greek and 

 Latin languages with thofe of our own. 

 Silent about the tones of each, where fu- 

 periority is univerfally confefled to be with 

 the two former, he proves that the confti- 

 tution of the Englifh language is, from it's 

 power of more varioufly compounding it's 

 terms, and from it's greater facility in pro- 

 ducing perfonifications, better calculated 

 for poetry than the Greek and Latin. Ac- 

 cordingly our poetry has more imagery than 

 that of either of thofe languages. From 

 this comparifon the author Hides into the 

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