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"Spectator, No. 416 [Pleasures of the Imagination]"
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Date: Friday, June 27, 1712
"The Reader finds a Scene drawn in stronger Colours, and painted more to the Life in his Imagination, by the help of Words, than by an actual Survey of the Scene which they describe."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Friday, June 27, 1712
"The Reason, probably, may be, because in the Survey of any Object we have only so much of it painted on the Imagination, as comes in at the Eye; but in its Description, the Poet gives us as free a View of it as he pleases, and discovers to us several Parts, that either we did not attend to, or t...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
