...tbofi images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and •vifion that are mojl agreeable to the imagination ; for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himfelf with fcenes and landfcapes more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compafs of...

...and compounding them into all the varietes of picture and vision;" or, perhaps, better thus c " \Ve have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding, those, images which we have once received, and of forming them into all the varieties of picture and vision." INTERJECTION. '-.".,.- t -'••'''*-•...

...varieties of picture and vision." It is Veryproper to say, " altering and compounding those image* which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision ;" but we can with no propriety say\ " retaining them into all the varieties ;" and yet, according...

...be still more evident from another example : By the faculty of a lively and picturesque imagination, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining himself...landscapes, more beautiful than any that can be found Jn the whole compass of nature. Spectator, No. 411. If we read this passage without that emphasis •which...

...which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision.' It is very proper to say, ' altering and compounding those images which we have...once received, into all the varieties of picture and visipn :' but we can with no propriety say, ' retaining them into all the varieties ;' and yet, according...

...and compounding them'into all the vari" eties of picture and vision ;" or better, perhaps, thus ; '- We have the power of retaining, altering, " and compounding those images which we have " once received, and of forming them into all •" the varieties of picture and vision." The lafter part of the sentence...

...occasion. We cannot, indeed, have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which * This essay on the pleasures of the imagination, is by far the most masterly of all Mr.Addison's critical...

...imagination ; for, by this faculty, a man in a dungeon is capable of entertaining him/elf with fcenes and landscapes more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compafs of nature. It may be of ufe to remark, that in one member of this fentence there is an inaccuracy...

...natural. " We eannot indeed have a single image in the faney, that did not make its first entranee through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and eompounding those images whieh we have onee reeeived, into all the varieties of pieture and vision...

...like occasion. We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy, that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering and compoundingthose images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...