my, of infinity. The pleasure of what is
wonderful--witness the delight of novelty, of the revelations of
science, of tales of fancy. The pleasure of beauty, which is always
connected with truth--the beauty of color, shape, and so on, in natural
objects; the beauty of mind and the moral faculties. Bk. ii.
contemplates accidental pleasures arising from contrivance and design,
emotion and passion, such as sorrow, pity, terror, and indignation. Bk.
iii. Morbid imagination the parent of vice; the benefits of a
well-trained imagination.

=Pleasures of Memory=, a poem in two parts, by Samuel Rogers (1793). The
first part is restricted to the pleasure of memory afforded by the five
senses, as that arising from visiting celebrated places, and that
afforded by pictures. Pt. ii. goes into the pleasures of the mind, as
imagination and memory of past griefs and dangers. The poem concludes
with the supposition that in the life to come this faculty will be
greatly enlarged. The episode is this: Florio, a young sportsman,
accidentally met Julia in a grot, and followed her home, when her
father, a rich squire, welcomed him as his guest, and talked with
delight of his younger days, when hawk and hound were his joy of joys.
Florio took Julia for a sail on the lake, but the vessel was capsized,
and, though Julia was saved from the water, she died on being brought to
shore. It was Florio's delight to haunt the places which Julia
frequented.

Her charm around the enchantress Memory threw,
A charm that soothes the mind and sweetens too.

Pt. ii.

=Pleiads= (_The_), a cluster of seven stars in the constellation _Taurus_,
and applied to a cluster of seven celebrated contemporaries. The stars
were the seven daughters of Atlas: Ma[)i]a, Electra, Tayg[)e]t[^e], (4
_syl._), Aster[)o]p[^e], Mer[)o]p[^e], Alcy[)o]n[^e] and Cel[=e]no.

_The Pleiad of Alexandria_ consisted of Callimachos, Apollonios Rhodios,
Ar[=a]tos, Homer the Younger, Lycophron, Nicander, and Theocr[)i]tos.
All of Alexandria, in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphos.

_The Pleiad of Charlemagne_ consisted of Alcuin, called "Alb[=i]nus;"
Angilbert, called "Homer;" Adelard, called "Augustine;" Riculfe, called
"Damaetas;" Varnefrid; Eginhard; and Charlemagne himself, who was called
"David."

_The First French Pleiad_ (sixteenth century): Ronsard, Joachim du
Bellay, Antoine de Ba[:i]f, Remi-Belleau, Jodelle, Ponthus de Thiard, and
the seventh is either Dorat or Amad