CONTENTS.

To EUPHEMIUS.

Letter

Page 1

1. A Good Tafle an inflantaneous Feel-

ing of what is beautiful. Truth,

Beauty, and Utility coincident; in-

fanced in a view of a rural Prospect,

in Architecture, in the mimetic Arts,

and in Characters and in Manners. ?

That Tafte precedes the flower Facul- 4

ties of the Reafon, and thofe of Ima-
gination, but is never repugnant to
the former. Why GOD implanted
this internal Perception in us.

To the Same.

P. 9.

II. That Beauty may receive fome addi-

tional Charms, but thefe ftill confiftent

with Truth. What thofe Charms are,

known by the Word Tafteful, by way

of Diftinction, in all Objects. Re-

ducible upon Examination to an Ana-

logy with pleasurable moral Ideas in

the

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the human Mind. That the most
faithful Difciples of Nature are the
moft admired Artifts.

III. Probable Conjectures to be made con-

cerning a Man's Tafte in Morals

from his Tafe of Objects in the Phy-
fical World. Why. Inftances given.

p. 20.

To the Same..

IV. That Artifs cannot avoid discover-
ing their own Tempers in their
Works, inftanced in the remarkable
Lives of RAPHAEL URBIN, MI-
CHAEL ANGELO BUONAROTI, and
the Family of the BASSANS. How

far Men are indebted to the Fair

for a Delicacy of Tafte, particularly

RAPHAEL.

To the Same.

p. 27

V. That a fine Tafte does not depend upon

any one Branch of the human System,

viz. not upon the intellectual Powers

alone; nor upon the Organs of Senfe

alone; nor upon the Imagination alone;

but

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but upon a happy Union of all three:

Mr. ADDISON had an exquifite Tafie,

but no great Talents for Poetry. A

beautiful Defcription in the ILIAD

equalled by Mr. POPE's Tranflation.

An Encomium on a Latin Poem, and.

a Criticism on the bad Taste of two

Tranflators of the fame.

VI. An Opinion in the laft Letter concern-

ing Mr. ADDISON fupported. A Cri-

ticifm on two celebrated Paffages in

his Works, and Commendation of his

Tranflations of OVID.

VII. Poetry and Painting compared. Some

Subjects peculiar to one, and fome in

common to both. The Superiority of v

the former to the latter. Night-Pieces

of MILTON, HOMER, and SHAKE-

SPEAR. The inimitable Tafle and

Excellence of the last in Defcription.

Obfervations on a Short Sketch of the

Evening by HOMER. Part of an Ode

to the Evening by Mr. COLLINS. His

animating Group of Figures.

P. 49.

VIII. The bad Tafle of many modern Ar-

tifts in the choice of their Subjects.

That every Art should regard its pro-

per End, which is the Improvement

of Mankind in moral Science. Pro-

per Subjects pointed out. Pictures

of INFANCY, YOUTH, MANHOOD,

and OLD AGE. A beautiful Subject
for the Pathetick in Painting. Where
a good Tafte in Morals prevails, a
good Tafte in Nature and the Arts
accompany it.

will

To the Same.

P. 57.

IX. The wretched Tafte for Architecture,

and domeftic Ornaments, that prevails

about LONDON. MUCIO's Palace a

contemptible Heap of taftelefs Magni-

ficence.

To EUGENIO.
P. 62.

X. How Sir JOHN DAVIES, in bis Poem

on the Immortality of the Soul, ac-

counts for the Spirits of Senfe, i. e.

TASTE. A true Relifh for proper

Means to procure Happiness dependent

upon a correctness of Fancy. EUGENIO

warned

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warned against the Delufion of a falfe
one by an ARABIAN Story.

TO EUPHEMIUS.

p. 67.

XI. Nothing corrupts a good Tafte more

than frequently reading the Italian

Poets. A Criticism on the Aminta
and Paftor Fido. Some Paffages in both
cenfured for bad Tafte. MILTON'S
Comus, and FLETCHER'S Faithful
Shepherdefs, much fuperior to the two
Italian dramatic Paftorals. Some Paf-
fages cited from the Faithful Shep-
herdefs.

To PHILEMON.

p. 76.

XII. Concerning the Ruins of PALMYRA.

The great Affiduity of Mr. DAWKINS

and Mr. WOOD applauded. Their

Tafte an Honour to our Country. A

Conjecture that the Temple of the Sun

was built by LONGINUS, from a fimi-

larity of Tafte in other Arts. A Cri-

ticifm upon the Use of the CORIN-

THIAN Order only in that City. A

Reason why that Order was fo much

admired there. A Passage in LoN-

GINUS'S Treatife on the Sublime