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named. Eniotious cannot be elicited at pleasure ; they must 

 be excited by appropriate descriptions and circumstances. 

 7J. The imagination sometimes acquires the vigour of a 

 sensation as in dreams, poetic transports, and the visions 

 occasioned by mental derangement ; persons in that state, 

 fancy they can see and hear, but never that they touch, 



smell or taste. To an imagination thus invisjorated I at- 



tribute the Scotch second sight, and the fancied calls men- 

 tioned in 3d Boswell's Life of Johnson, p. 26'3. See also 2 

 Crichton, 41, kc. 



72. The pleasures ofiinaginatioii arise either from narratives, 

 true, or supposed to be so, and at the same time important 

 or curious, properly arranged, and related in language cor- 

 rect, elegant and perspicuous, or even when known to be fic- 

 titious, as heroic poems, tragedies and romances, when they 

 do not overleap all bounds of probability, but excite emo- 

 tions, sublime, grand, marvellous or pathetic. And novels 

 and tales, whether moral or merely amusing, exhibiting cha- 

 racters and personages of ancient or modern date engaged in 

 adventures comic or serious, that by their novelty and va- 

 riety attract and enchain our attention, and excite such emo- 

 tions as the adventures would naturally suggest. 



73. Or from descriptions, whether brilliant, splendid or pic- 

 turesque ; or glowing, impressive and impassioned ; or ludi- 

 crous, comic, burlesque or sportive. 



74. Or 



