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call a capricious movement of Scarlatti or 

 Haydn picturesque, he would, with great 

 reason, be laughed at, for it is not a term 

 applied to Sounds ; yet such a movement, 

 from its sudden, unexpected, and abrupt 

 transitions, — from a certain playful wild- 

 ness of character and appearance of irregu- 

 larity, is no less analogous to similar scenery 

 in nature, than the concerto or the chorus, 

 to what is grand or beautiful to the eye. 



There is, indeed, a general harmony and 

 correspondence in all our sensations when 

 they arise from similar causes, though they 

 affect us by means of different senses ; and 

 these causes, as Mr. Burke has admirably 

 pointed out*, can never be so clearly ascer- 

 tained when we confine our observations 

 to one sense Only. 



I must here observe, and I wish the 

 reader to keep it in his mind, that the in- 

 quiry is not in what sense certain words 

 are used in the best authors, still less what 



* Sublime and beautiful, page 



