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Part I. EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. 53
powerful os all the means by which one human
being can display itsels to another, the objefts os
the eve mull so sar yield preference to those os the
ear. With respeci to inanimate objetts os sight ,
sounds maybe so contrived as to ra-ise both terror
and mirth beyond what can be done by any Inch
objefl. Music has a commanding inssuence over
the mind , especially in conjunction with words.
Objects of sight may indeed contribute to the same
end, but more faintly; as where a love-poem is
rehearsed in a shady grove , or on the bank of a
purling stream. But sounds , which are vastly
more duflile and various, readily accompany all
the social affections expresiedin a poem , especially
emotions os love and pity.
Music having at command a great variety of
emotions, may, like many objects of light, be made
to promote luxury and esfeminacy , of which we
have instances without number, especially in vocal
music. But with respefl to its pure and resined
pleasures , music goes hand in hand with garden-
ing and architecture , her sitter-arts , in humani-
zing and polishing the mind 1 ; of which none can
doubt who have felt the charms of music. But is
authority be required , the sollowing passage freer
a grave historian, eminent for solidity os judge-
ment , mutt have the greatest weight. Poiybsius^
speaking os the people cf Cynxtha , an Aiva-ian.
B See chapter 24.
D 3
powerful os all the means by which one human
being can display itsels to another, the objefts os
the eve mull so sar yield preference to those os the
ear. With respeci to inanimate objetts os sight ,
sounds maybe so contrived as to ra-ise both terror
and mirth beyond what can be done by any Inch
objefl. Music has a commanding inssuence over
the mind , especially in conjunction with words.
Objects of sight may indeed contribute to the same
end, but more faintly; as where a love-poem is
rehearsed in a shady grove , or on the bank of a
purling stream. But sounds , which are vastly
more duflile and various, readily accompany all
the social affections expresiedin a poem , especially
emotions os love and pity.
Music having at command a great variety of
emotions, may, like many objects of light, be made
to promote luxury and esfeminacy , of which we
have instances without number, especially in vocal
music. But with respefl to its pure and resined
pleasures , music goes hand in hand with garden-
ing and architecture , her sitter-arts , in humani-
zing and polishing the mind 1 ; of which none can
doubt who have felt the charms of music. But is
authority be required , the sollowing passage freer
a grave historian, eminent for solidity os judge-
ment , mutt have the greatest weight. Poiybsius^
speaking os the people cf Cynxtha , an Aiva-ian.
B See chapter 24.
D 3