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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: this respect, as it is probable the soul of man will be infinitely more perfect hereafter in this faculty, as well as in all the rest; insomuch that, perhaps, the imagination will be able to keep pace with the understanding, and to form in itself distinct ideas of all the different modes and quantities of space. Addison. 0. N421. THURSDAY, JULYS, 1712. PAPER XI. ON THE PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION. CONTENTS. How those please the imagination, who treat of subjects abstracted from matter, by allusions taken from it. What allusions most pleasing to the imagination. Great writers how faulty in this respect. Of the art of imagining in general. The imagination capable of pain as well as pleasure. In what degree the imagination is capable either of pain or pleasure. Ignotis errare locis, ignota videre Flumina gaudebat; studio minuente laborem. OVID. Met. 1. iv. ver. 294. He sought fresh fountains in a foreign soil The pleasure lessen'd the attending toil. ADDISON. The pleasures of the imagination are not wholly confined to such particular authors as are conversant in material objects, but are often to be met with among the polite masters of morality, criticism, and other speculations abstracted from matter, who, though they do not directly treat of the visible parts of na.ture, often draw from them their similitudes, metaphors, and allegories. By these allusions, a troth in the understanding is, as it were, reflected by the imagination; we are able to see something like colour and shape in a notion, and to discover a scheme of thoughts traced out upon matter. And here the mind receives a great deal of satisfaction, and has two of its faculties gratified at the same time, while the fancy is busy in copying after the understanding, and transcribing ideas out o...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217106726 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217106722 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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