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"Spectator, No. 411 [Pleasures of the Imagination]"
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Date: Saturday, June 21, 1712
"[Sight] fills the Mind with the largest Variety of Ideas, converses with its Objects at the greatest Distance, and continues the longest in Action without being tired or satiated with its proper Enjoyments."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Saturday, June 21, 1712
"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 particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile Disquisitions, and advises him to pursue Studies that fill the Mind with splendid and illustrious ...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)