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itself to his view, than of that which I have hitherto considered, I shall not trouble my reader with any reflections upon it. It is sufficient for my present purpose to observe, that there is no­thing in this whole art which pleases the Imagination, but as it is great, un- common , or beautiful.

Chapter VI.

I at first divided the pleasures of the Imagination into such as arise from ob- jects which are actualiy before our eyes, or that once entered in at our eyes , and are afterwards called up into the mind either barely by its own opera- tions , or on occasion of something without us , as statues or descriptions. We have already considered the first division, and shall therefore enter on the other, which > for distinctions sake, I h ve called the secondary pleasures of the imagination; When I say the