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13a EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. Ch. II.
dismal waste, book 1. of Paradije lojl, we are
sepTble of a confused seeling, arising from dissi-
milar emotions forced into union , to wit , the
beauty of the description, and the horror of the
obj ecl described:
Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild,
The seat of desolation , void of light ,
Save what the glimmering of these livid flames
Calls pale and dreadful ?
And with respeft to this and many similar passages
in Paradije loji, we are sensible, that the emo-
tions being obscured by each other, make neither
of them that figure they would make separately.
For the same reason, ascending smoke in a calm
morning, which inspires stillness and tranquillity,
is improper in a pifture full of violent aftion. A
parterre, partly ornamented partly in disorder,
produces a mixt feeling of the same sort. Two
great armies in aft to engage , mix the dissimilar
emotions of grandeur and of terror :
Sembra d’alberi densi alta foresta
L’un campo, e 1’altro; di tant’ aste abbonda.
Son teli gli archi, e son le lance in resta:
Vibransi i dardi, e retail ogni Honda.
Ogni cavallo in guerra anco s’apprefla
Gli odii, e’l furor del suo signor seconda:
Kaspa , batte , nitrisee , e li raggira ,
Gonsiale nari; e fumo , e fuoco spira.
13a EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. Ch. II.
dismal waste, book 1. of Paradije lojl, we are
sepTble of a confused seeling, arising from dissi-
milar emotions forced into union , to wit , the
beauty of the description, and the horror of the
obj ecl described:
Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild,
The seat of desolation , void of light ,
Save what the glimmering of these livid flames
Calls pale and dreadful ?
And with respeft to this and many similar passages
in Paradije loji, we are sensible, that the emo-
tions being obscured by each other, make neither
of them that figure they would make separately.
For the same reason, ascending smoke in a calm
morning, which inspires stillness and tranquillity,
is improper in a pifture full of violent aftion. A
parterre, partly ornamented partly in disorder,
produces a mixt feeling of the same sort. Two
great armies in aft to engage , mix the dissimilar
emotions of grandeur and of terror :
Sembra d’alberi densi alta foresta
L’un campo, e 1’altro; di tant’ aste abbonda.
Son teli gli archi, e son le lance in resta:
Vibransi i dardi, e retail ogni Honda.
Ogni cavallo in guerra anco s’apprefla
Gli odii, e’l furor del suo signor seconda:
Kaspa , batte , nitrisee , e li raggira ,
Gonsiale nari; e fumo , e fuoco spira.