Again, the word little, being pronounced with a very small aperture of the mouth, has a weak and faint found, which makes an impreffion refembling that made by any diminutive object. This refemblance of effects, is ftill more remarkable where a number of words are connected together in a period. Words pronounced in fuccession make often a strong impreffion; and when this impression happens to accord with that made by the fenfe, a peculiar pleasure arifes. The thought or fentiment produces one pleasant emotion: the melody or tone of the words produces another. But the chief pleasure proceeds from having these two concordant emotions combined in perfect harmony, and carried on in the mind to a full clofe *. Except in the fingle cafe where found is described, all the examples given by critics of fense being imitated in found, resolve into a resemblance of effects. Emotions raised by found and fignification may have a refemblance; but found itself cannot have a resemblance to any thing but sound. *See chap. 2. part 4. U u 2 Proceeding Proceeding now to particulars, and beginning with thofe cafes where the emotions have the strongest resemblance, I obferve, first, That in pronouncing a number of fyllables in fucceffion, an emotion is fometimes raised extremely fimilar to that raised by fucceffive motion. This may be made evident even to those who are defective in tafte, by the following fact, that the term movement in all languages is equally apply'd to both. In this manner, fucceffive motion, fuch as walking, running, galloping, can be imitated by a fucceffion of long or fhort fyllables, or by a due mixture of both. For example, flow motion may be aptly imitated in a verfe where long fyllables pre vail; efpecially when aided by a flow pro nunciation: Illi inter fefe magnâ vi brachia tollunt. Georg. iv. 174. On the other hand, swift motion is imitated by a fucceffion of short fyllables: Quadrupedante putrem fonitu quatit ungula cam pum. Again: Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas. Thirdly, a line compofed of monofyllables, makes an impreffion, by the frequency of its pauses, fimilar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion: With many a weary step, and many a groan, First march the heavy mules, fecurely flow; Fourthly, the impreffion made by rough founds in fucceffion, resembles that made by rough or tumultuous motion. On the other hand, the impreffion of fmooth founds resembles that of gentle motion. The following is an example of both. Two craggy rocks projecting to the main, The roaring wind's tempeftuous rage restrain; Within, " Within, the waves in fofter murmurs glide, Odyffey, i. 118. Another example of the latter: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, Fifthly, prolonged motion is expressed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of flow motion prolonged: A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong; That, like a wounded fnake, drags its flow length along. Efay on Crit. 356. The next example is of forcible motion prolonged : The waves behind impel the waves before, fhore. Iliad, xiii. 1004. The last shall be of rapid motion prolonged: Not Not fo when swift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Efay on Crit. 373. Again, fpeaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain, Still gath❜ring force, it smokes, and, urg'd amain, Sixthly, a period confifting mostly of long fyllables, that is, of fyllables pronounced low, produceth an emotion resembling faintly that which is produced by gravity and folemnity. Hence the beauty of the following verfe. Olli fedato refpondit corde Latinus, Seventhly, a flow fucceffion of ideas is a circumstance that belongs equally to fettled melancholy, and to a period composed of polyfyllables pronounced flow. Hence, by fimilarity of emotions, the latter is imitative of the former: In |