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of hearing) accompanied with the sentiments they suggest. 

 See No. 18. 



66. Imagination is the power of varying, by addition or 

 subtraction, the order and species of ideas of sensations ori- 

 ginally received either by the eije or the car*. To ideas of 

 these sensations it seems to me confined, as Mr. Addison first 

 noticedf, of which opinion were also Dr. lleid+, Dr. Blair§, 

 Dr. Johnson||, and Mr. Ilomef ; yet professor Stewart** and 

 Mr. Edgworth++ think the imagination may represent per- 

 ceptions derived from all the senses; to this opinion I should 

 accede, could I allow that Ave have, at least after a moderate 

 interval, any idea of sensations derived from any of tlio 

 other senses— at least, as to myself I cannot find that I pos- 

 sess any. ]\Ir. Addison does not mention ideas of sensations 

 received through the sense of hearing, nor does Dr. Johnson ; 

 plainly because neither of them had an ear for music. 



67. Mr. Stewart allows, that though the greater part of 

 the materials which the imagination combines, are supplied 

 by objects of sight, yet insists that many pleasing images are 



^ 2 borrowed 



* This definition, which appears to me perfectly just, was, as far as I recollect. Hrst 

 given by Dr. Barnes, 1 Mem. Manchester, 3S2. 

 f Spectator, vol. 6. No. 411. 



I On intellectual powers, chap. 4. p. 21. in 8vo. 

 § 1 Blair, vol. I. p. 56. 



II 2 Boswell's Life of Johnson, p. ii^■, and 3 Boswell, p. 23 

 •[ Elements of Criticism, appendix, : sgG. . IS, 



** On the Mind, 4S3, in 8vo. .1- biic .£ ,; 

 - XI 3. Edgworth on Education, 129. '' . 



