The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,418 pages of information about The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 3,418 pages of information about The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

  Of Architecture as it affects the Imagination.  Greatness in
  Architecture relates either to the Bulk or to the Manner.  Greatness of
  Bulk in the Ancient Oriental Buildings.  The ancient Accounts of these
  Buildings confirm’d,

    1.  From the Advantages, for raising such Works, in the first Ages of
       the World and in the Eastern Climates: 

    2.  From several of them which are still extant.

Instances how Greatness of Manner affects the Imagination.  A French Author’s Observation on this Subject.  Why Concave and Convex Figures give a Greatness of Manner to Works of Architecture.  Every thing that pleases the Imagination in Architecture is either Great, Beautiful, or New.

PAPER VI. [No. 416, Volume 2.]

The Secondary Pleasures of the Imagination.  The several Sources of these Pleasures (Statuary, Painting, Description and Musick) compared together.  The Final Cause of our receiving Pleasure from these several Sources.  Of Descriptions in particular.  The Power of Words over the Imagination.  Why one Reader more pleased with Descriptions than another.

PAPER VII. [No. 417, Volume 3.]

How a whole Set of Ideas Hang together, &c.  A Natural Cause assigned for it.  How to perfect the Imagination of a Writer.  Who among the Ancient Poets had this Faculty in its greatest Perfection.  Homer excelled in Imagining what is Great; Virgil in Imagining what is Beautiful; Ovid in imagining what is New.  Our own Country-man Milton very perfect in all three respects.

PAPER VIII. [No. 418, Volume 3.]

Why any thing that is unpleasant to behold, pleases the Imagination when well described.  Why the Imagination receives a more Exquisite Pleasure from the Description of what is Great, New, or Beautiful.  The Pleasure still heightned, if—­what is described raises Passion in the Mind.  Disagreeable Passions pleasing when raised by apt Descriptions.  Why Terror and Grief are pleasing to the Mind when excited by Descriptions.  A particular Advantage the Writers in Poetry and Fiction have to please the Imagination.  What Liberties are allowed them.

PAPER IX. [No. 419, Volume 3.]

Of that kind of Poetry which Mr. Dryden calls the Fairy Way of Writing.  How a Poet should be Qualified for it.  The Pleasures of the Imagination that arise from it.  In this respect why the Moderns excell the Ancients.  Why the English excell the Moderns.  Who the Best among the English.  Of Emblematical Persons.

PAPER X. [No. 420, Volume 3.]

What Authors please the Imagination who have nothing to do with Fiction.  How History pleases the Imagination.  How the Authors of the new Philosophy please the Imagination.  The Bounds and Defects of the Imagination.  Whether these Defects are Essential to the Imagination.

PAPER XI. [No. 421, Volume 3.]

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