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"Spectator, No. 421 [Pleasures of the Imagination]"
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Date: Thursday, July 3rd, 1712
"By these Allusions [similitudes, metaphors, and allegories] a Truth 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"
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
