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Chapter XI.
The pleasures of the Imagination are not wholy confined to such psrticular authors as are conversant in material objects , but are often to be met with among the polite masters of moraiity, criticism, and other speculations ab- stracted from matter, who, though they do not directly treat of the visible parts of nature, often draw from them their similitudes, metaphors, and* allegories. By these allusions a truth in the understanding is as it were reflec- ted by the Imagination; we are able to see, something like colour and shape in a notion, and to discover a scheine of -> thoughts traced out upon matter. And here the mind receives a great deal of satisfaction, and has two -of its facul- si es gratified at the sametime, while