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,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.

Odyssey, xi. 736.

First march the heavy mules fecurely flow;
O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er craggs, o'er rocks they go.
Iliad, xxiii. 138.

Fourthly, The impreffion made by rough founds in fucceffion, resembles that made by rough or tumultuous motion on the other hand, the impreffion of smooth founds refembles that of gentle motion. The following is an example of both.

Two craggy rocks projecting to the main,
The roaring wind's tempestuous rage restrain;
Within, the waves in softer murmurs glide,
And ships fecure without their haulfers ride.

Another example of the latter :

Odyssey, iii. 118.

Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows.

Effay on Crit. 366.

Fifthly, Prolonged motion is expreffed in an Alexandrine line. The first example shall be of flow motion prolonged.

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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,
Wide-rolling, foaming high, and tumbling to the fhore.
Iliad, xiii. 1004,

The laft fhall be of rapid motion prolonged :

Not fo when fwift Camilla fcours the plain,
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Effay on Crit. 373.

Again fpeaking of a rock torn from the brow of

a mountain :

Still gath'ring force, it fmokes, and urg'd amain,
Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain.
Iliad, xiii. 197.

Sixthly, a period confifting moftly of long fyl.. lables, that is, of fyllables pronounced flow, produceth an emotion refembling faintly that which is produced by gravity and folemnity. Hence the beauty of the following verse :

Olli fedato refpondit corde Latinus.

It resembles equally an object that is infipid and uninteresting.

Tædet

Tædet quotidianarum harum formarum.

Terence, Eunuchus, at 2. fc. 3.

Seventhly, A flow fucceffion of ideas is a cir cumstance that belongs equally to fettled melancholy, and to a period compofed of polyfyllables pronounced flow; and hence by fimilarity of emotions, the latter is imitative of the former:

In those deep folitudes, and awful cells,
Where heavenly penfive Contemplation dwells,
And ever-mufing melancholy reigns.

Pope, Eloifa to Abelard.

Eighthly, A long fyllable made short, or a short fyllable made long, raises, by the difficulty of pronouncing contrary to custom, a feeling similar to that of hard labour:

When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labours, and the words move flow.

Effay on Crit. 370.

Ninthly, Harsh or rough words pronounced with difficulty, excite a feeling fimilar to that which proceeds from the labour of thought to a dull writer:

Juft writes to make his barrenness appear,

And ftrains from hard-bound brains eight lines a-year, Pope's epifle to Dr Arbuthnot, 1. 181.

I fhall close with one example more, which of

all makes the fineft figure. In the firft fection mention is made of a climax in found; and in the fecond, of a climax in sense. It belongs to the prefent fubject to obferve, that when thefe coincide in the fame paffage, the concordance of found and fense is delightful: the reader is conscious not only of pleasure from the two climaxes feparately, but of an additional pleasure from their concordance, and from finding the fenfe fo juftly imitated by the found. In this refpect, no periods are more perfect than those borrowed from Cicero in the firft fection.

The concord between fenfe and found is no less agreeable in what may be termed an anticlimax, where the progress is from great to little; for this has the effect to make diminutive objects appear ftill more diminutive. Horace affords a ftriking example:

Parturiunt montes, nafcetur ridiculus mus.

The arrangement here is fingularly artful: the firft place is occupied by the verb, which is the capital word by its fenfe as well as found: the clofe is referved for the word that is the meanest in fenfe as well as in found. And it must not be overlooked, that the refembling founds of the twe last fyllables give a ludicrous air to the whole.

Reviewing the foregoing examples, it appears to me, contrary to expectation, that in paffing from the strongest resemblances to those that are fainter,

fainter, every step affords additional pleasure. Renewing the experiment again and again, I feel no wavering, but the greatest pleasure conftantly from the fainteft resemblances. And yet how can this be? for if the pleasure lie in imitation, must not the strongest resemblance afford the greatest pleafure? From this vexing dilemma I am happily relieved, by reflecting on a doctrine established in the chapter of resemblance and contrast, that the pleasure of resemblance is the greatest, where it is leaft expected, and where the objects compared are in their capital circumstances widely different. Nor will this appear furprising, when we defcend to familiar examples. It raifeth no degree of wonder to find the most perfect resemblance between two eggs of the fame bird: it is more rare to find fuch resemblance between two human faces; and upon that account fuch an appearance raises fome degree of wonder: but this emotion rises to a still greater height, when we find in a pebble, an agate, or other natural production, any resemblance to a tree or to any organised body. We cannot hefitate a moment, in applying these observations to the present subject: what occafion of wonder can it be to find one found resembling another, where both are of the fame kind? it is not fo common to find a refemblance between an articulate found and one not articulate; which accordingly affords fome flight pleasure. But the pleasure fwells greatly, when we employ found to imitate things

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