460 Pleafures of Imagination. [Book X.' 



the works of nature from cuftom, and the ideas con- 

 ne<5ted with them. Neverthelefs, where the end is 

 pleafure, we may lay it down as an univerfal rule, that 

 an object ought to pofiefs fome degree of variety with- 

 out entirely departing from that uniformity we love. 



The pleafures of the imagination I have aflerted ta 

 be much more numerous than the pleafures of fenfe ; 

 and thefe refult, firft, from whatever of the beautiful is 

 pofiefTed naturally by the objects defcrihed. 2dly, From 

 the aflbciations of pleafure originally deduced from the 

 fenfes with other ideas. 



