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Seft. VII. FIGURES. gy
A various sweetness swells the gentle race.
Ibid. 640.
A sober calm sseeces unbounded ether.
Ibid. 967.
The distant water - fall swells in the breeze.
Winter , 738.
In the tenth place, When asubjess: is introduced
by its proper name , it is ablurd to attribute to it
the properties of a different lubjed to which the
word is sometimes, applied, in a figurative sense :
Hear me, oh Neptune ! thou whole arms are hurl’d
From ssiore to fliore, and gird the solid world.
OdyJJty. ix. 61 7.
Neptune is here introduced personally, and not
figuratively for the ocean : the description there-
fore , which is only applicable to the latter , is
altogether improper.
It is not sussicient, that a figure of speech be re™
gularly construHed , and be sree from blemish : it
requires taste to discern when'it is proper when
improper; and taste, I suspeft, is our only guide.
One however may gather from resseftipn and ex-
perience, that ornaments and graces suit not any
of the dispiriting passions , nor are proper for ex-
pressing any thing grave and important. In fami-
liar conversatiou, they are in seme measure ridicu-
Vol. in. ‘ G
A various sweetness swells the gentle race.
Ibid. 640.
A sober calm sseeces unbounded ether.
Ibid. 967.
The distant water - fall swells in the breeze.
Winter , 738.
In the tenth place, When asubjess: is introduced
by its proper name , it is ablurd to attribute to it
the properties of a different lubjed to which the
word is sometimes, applied, in a figurative sense :
Hear me, oh Neptune ! thou whole arms are hurl’d
From ssiore to fliore, and gird the solid world.
OdyJJty. ix. 61 7.
Neptune is here introduced personally, and not
figuratively for the ocean : the description there-
fore , which is only applicable to the latter , is
altogether improper.
It is not sussicient, that a figure of speech be re™
gularly construHed , and be sree from blemish : it
requires taste to discern when'it is proper when
improper; and taste, I suspeft, is our only guide.
One however may gather from resseftipn and ex-
perience, that ornaments and graces suit not any
of the dispiriting passions , nor are proper for ex-
pressing any thing grave and important. In fami-
liar conversatiou, they are in seme measure ridicu-
Vol. in. ‘ G