after the real Mufic had ceas'd which play'd behind him. The Editor therefore is now empower'd to declare, that the Author is determin'd neither to make material Alterations in any future Edition, nor to tire the Public with wiredrawing the Subject into a second Volume.

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1. A Good Taste an instantaneous Feel-
ing of what is beautiful. Truth,

Beauty, and Utility coincident; in-

fanced in a view of a rural Profpect,

in Architecture, in the mimetic Arts,

and in Characters and in Manners.

That Tafte precedes the flower Facul-

ties of the Reason, and thofe of Imagi-

nation, but is never repugnant to the

former. Why GOD implanted this in-

ternal Perception in us.

To the Same.

p. 10

II. That Beauty may receive fome addi-

tional Charms, but these fill confiftent

with Truth. What thofe Charms are.

Known by the Word Tafteful, by way

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of Diftinction, in all Objects. Redu-
cible upon Examination to an Analogy
with pleafurable moral Ideas in the
human Mind. That the most faithful
Difciples of Nature are the most ad-
mired Artifts.

To the Same.

p. 15

III. Probable Conjectures to be made con-
cerning a Man's Tafte in Morals from
his Tafte of Objects in the Phyfical
World. Why. Inftances given.

To the Same.

P. 22

IV. That Artifts cannot avoid discovering
their own Tempers in their Works,
inftanced in the remarkable Lives of
RAPHAEL URBIN, MICHAEL AN-
GELO 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. 29

V. That a fine Tafte does not depend upon

any one Branch of the human Syftem,

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 Taste,

but no great Talents for Poetry, A

beautiful Defcription in the ILIAD

equal'd by Mr. POPE's Tranflation.

An Encomium on a Latin Poem, and

a Criticism on the bad Taste of two

Tranflators of the fame.

To the Same.

P. 34

VI. An Opinion in the laft Letter concern-

ing Mr. ADDISON fupported. A Cri-

ticism on two celebrated Paffages in

his Works, and Commendation of his

Tranflations of OVID.

To the Same.

P. 43

VII. Poetry and Painting compared. Some

Subjects peculiar to one, and fome in

common to both. The Superiority of

the former to the latter. Night-Pieces

of MILTON, HOMER, and SHAKE-

SPEAR. The inimitable Taste 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.

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To the Same.

P. 52
VIII. The bad Taste of many modern Ar-
tifts in the choice of their Subjects:
That every Art fhould 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 will accom-
pany it.

To the Same.

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IX. The wretched Tafte for Architecture,
and domeftic Ornaments, that prevails
about LONDON. MUCIO's Palace a
contemptible Heap of taftelefs Mag-
nificence.

To EUGENIO.
p. 66
X. How Sir JOHN DAVIES, in his 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

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