..,jA.s the. proper application of jtSe

joi(se to, the purpofes of eloquence

Jias , been little attended to^ it has

Jbjq^n thought an art unattainable by

^ny rules, and. depending entirely ofi

aaturajl Taftc and Qenius, This is m

fome meafure true •, yet it is much more

re;ducit)lc to rules, and more capable pf

..being taught, than i$ commonly in)^-

,gin(?d« Indeed, before philofppl^y ajt

..cert^ina and methodizes the. idei^s- aj^d

pri<>f iples on which, an ^rt depciids, .it

,k no wpndec ,it be di^cylt.pf acquifi-



is tb lie Communicated is to be fiMitied^
and It fs a confiderablc'time before this
language comes to be underftood • and
adopted.— We Tiave a remark ablfe iii-^
ftance of this in the fubjeft of tttufical
exprefiion, or petformirtg a piece df
' Mufic with Tafte and propriety . ^J^
pic were Tenfible, that the fumie Mufic
performed by different artifts had very
^ififefelit cfFefts. Yet they aH ptey^d
the fame notes, and played ecjuafty well
•ih tune aiid in time. But ftill the^c
"Was an tirikinown fomewhat, that gaite
'^t tnfeahing iahd exprcflion from one
Ifindf, 'Whik from another k was lifelefs
iiHA frffipid. People ^were fatisfied in
V(ilblvihg^ ^his 'into petfortnihgwith'^i?
^itii6ttr Taftfc, which was thought die
t^tijre'^t of Naturo-^Qetftihiafti, who
Svtls ^Ot!l ' a eompdfer and performer of
l!Kd '%h«ft tfefs, fifft thought of Wc-
^idtiClftg t5telMtlirlfli^itfgi»i the Vio-
lin



pofe he was obliged, to tn^e a great ^4^
ditionno the tnufit^l lijinguagc and chtr
faftetls. The fcheme was executed with
great ingenuity, but has not met with
t^e att^iltion it dbferved.
