The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (3.1789)

languid murmurs die along the shore. Sublimely
beautiful! placid! benign! the canal of in-
dustrious commerce! the liberal donor of
abundant wealth! the friendly union of distant
nations ! Is this the element, which anon shall
rouze its resistless fury, shall rise in tempestu-
ous billows foaming against the heavens, shall
roll its circling eddies in restless agitation, and
discover its profound recedes ? Deep as the
grave ! obscure as the shadow of darkness !
The works of Omnipotence, are simple prin-
ciples, applied to a variety, an infinite variety
of purposes ; distributed into effects apparently
distant from their causes; into divisions whose
origin seems scarcely related to its osfspring :
but the productions of the human race, are an
asfemblage of various smaller articles united to
sorm one whole; they are collections from
distant quarters, composed, compounded, ar-
ranged, and regulated, with much patience,
contrivance and ingenuity. To procure them
is the province of labour, the sinewy arm
rnust exert its strength, and united efsorts move
the cumbrous mass; but to place it to the best
advantage, to improve its form into symmetry,
to decorate it with delicacy and address, is the
province os genius; of genius, happily assisted
by knowledge and skill.
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