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as form. The ears of bay, and grey horfes 

 are generally tipped with black, which melts 



into the colour of the head. But the ear 



of the horfe receives it's greateft beauty from 

 motion. The ear of no animal has that 

 vibrating power. The ears of a fpirited horfe 

 are continually in motion; quivering, and 

 darting their (harp points towards every obje<5t, 

 that prefents : and the action is ftill more 

 beautiful, when the ears are fo well fet on, 

 that the points are drawn nearly together. 

 Virgil, who was among the moil accurate 

 obfervers of nature, takes notice of this qui- 

 vering motion in the ears of a horfe. 



Si qua fonum procul arma dedere, 



Stare loco nefcit; micat auribus 



The fame word, which he ufes here to exprefs 

 the motion of a horfe's ears, he ufes elfewhere 

 to exprefs the gleaming of arms ; the glittering 

 of a gem -, and the vibrating motion of a 



ferpent's tongue. But it is not only the 



quivering motion of the horfe's ears, that we 

 admire j we admire them alfo as the inter- 

 preters of his paffions; particularly oi fear, 

 which fome denominate courage : and of anger, 



or 



