"M *than copy "It,—and whenever they enriched it with any additional' • circumftance, it was the utmoft effort of their mind. ' . It was, therefore, along time ^ter this period, that'poets and painters, -#ho had infcnfibly and feparately brought their works to-perfection, learnt • to make choice of the grandeft and moft beautiful objeéb nature prefented to them,—to unite them with fome fort of propriety, and, having gained greater ftrength, to view with one glance the whole-extent of their fubjcCt, and to form a general plan of it. JEt was then, that bringing the whole to one point of view, they learnt to reduce it to that unity without which aU vthe works of genius or -of art muft ever Demain below.perfection.