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Show OR IG, I l. ~ OF SOCIET 1. CA~'!'OlL 14·~ f d . 1 . air their fn·n ge d c rests o woo ' Wave htg1ID n d· ker'd shadows dance upo n the uoo ' l~nd chec t the sidelong scene, . lawns construe Green slopmg · d between ; And guide the sparkling rill that wm s. 1 Con d uc t On murmun·n g w1. ngs the pausing ga e, A d rural ec h oes talk along the vale·; n . Dim hills belu. nd ·m pom p aerial nse, . Lift their blue tops, an d melt in to the skies. 170 " So when by HANDEL tuned to measured sounds The trumpet v.i brates, or the drum rebounds; Alarm'd we listen with ecstatic wonder To r.m .m 1.c battles • or I· mag·i ne d thunder. . When the soft lute in sweet ·I mpass·i on 'd strains Of cruel nymph s or broken vows complains; As on the breeze the fine vibration floats, We drink delighted the melodious notes. . . The pleasure we expen. ence from rnusJC,. 1Ve drink delzgltted, I. 178. d . cl from various sources' · · landscape enve · Jas~ like that from vtewmg a 'd.t nerve into certam quan- first from the excitement of the au 1 ory CANTO IV. O,F GOOD -1ND EVIL. 145 But when young Beanty on the realms abOve Bends her bright eye, and trills the tones oflove; 180 Seraphic sounds enchant this nether sphere; And listening angels lean from Heaven to hear. " Next by SENSATION led, new JOys commence From the fine movements of the exCited sense; In swarms ideal urge their airy flight, Adorn the day-scenes, and illume the night. Her spells o'er all the l1and of Fancy flings, Gives form and substance to unreal things; tities of action, when there exists any accumulation of sensorial power. 2. Wl1en the and!tory nerve is exerted in such successive actions as relieve each other, like stretcl1ing or yawning-, as described in Botanic Garden, Vol. II, Intel"!ude the third, these successions of sound are termed melody, and their combiuations harmony. 3. From the repetition of sounds at certain intervals of time; as we hear them with greater facility and accuracy, when we expect them; because they are then excited by volition, as well as by irritatioU, or at least the tympanum is then better adapted to assist their production; hence the two musical times or bars; and hence the rhi mes in poetry give pleasure, as well as the measure of the verse: and lastly the pleasure we receive from music, arises from tl1e associations of agreeable sentiments with certain proportions, or repetitions, or quantities, or times of sounds which have been previously acquired; as explained in Zoonomia Vol. I. Sect. XVI. 10. and Sect. XXII. £. u |