ness, without putting them upon any labour or difficulty."

The beginning of this sentence is not correct, and affords an instance of a period too loosely connected with the preceding one. Of this nature, says he, are those of the imagination. We might ask, of what nature? It had been better, if, keeping in view the governing object of the preceding sentence, he had said, This advantage we gain," or, "This satisfaction we enjoy, by means of the pleasure of the imagination.'

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We might here add, that the pleasures of the fancy are more conducive to health than those of the understanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent a labour of the brain."

On this sentence, nothing occurs deserving of remark, except that worked out by dint of thinking, is a phrase which borders too much on vulgar and colloquial language, to be proper for being employed in a polished composition.

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Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason, Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem, or a prospect, where he particular

ly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature."

In the latter of these two sentences, a member of the period is altogether out of its place; which gives the whole sentence a harsh and disjointed cast, and serves to illustrate the rules I formerly gave concerning arrangement. The wrong placed member which I point at, is this; where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions; these words should, undoubtedly, have been placed, not where they stand, but thus: Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, has not thought it improper to prescribe to him, &c. This arrangement reduces every thing into proper order.

"I have, in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notion of those pleasures of the imagination, which are the subject of my present undertaking, and endeavoured, by several considerations, to recommend to my readers the pursuit of those pleasures; I shall, in my next paper, examine the several sources from whence these pleasures are derived."

These two concluding sentences afford examples of the proper collocation of circumstances in a period. I formerly showed, that it is often a matter of difficulty to dispose of them in such a manner, as that they shall not

embarrass the principal subject of the sentence. In the sentences before us, several of these incidental circumstances necessarily come in By way of introduction-by several considerations-in this paper-in the next paper. All which are, with great propriety, managed by our author.

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