Excerpt from Pains of the Imagination: A Poem, Read Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Dartmouth College, August 19, 1824The Poem was intended as a counterpart of the pleasures OF imagination, by Dr. Akenside, although it was written without a single recurrence to the pages of that work, or indeed to any other, with the exception of a passage in Virgil, for the purpose of asoer taining the correctness of a classical allusion. This circumstance is not set down to the score of merit, but may plead in extenuation of the faults of the performance, some of which might, perhaps, have been avoided by a fuller analysis of the subject, and an examination of analogous productions. It is proper to remark, that the word imagi nation is used in the vague and popular sense, sanctioned by the autho rity of standard writers, who employ the term as synonymous with fancy, comprehending under it nearly the whole mind, instead of re stricting it, With metaphysical precision, to that faculty which com pounds or combines ideas already received through the senses, and thus forms new creations and images of its own.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.