hat 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.]

How those please the Imagination who treat of Subjects abstracted from
Matter, by Allusions taken from it. What Allusions most pleasing to
the Imagination. Great Writers how Faulty in this Respect. Of the Art
of Imagining in General. The Imagination capable of Pain as well as
Pleasure. In what Degree the Imagination is capable either of Pain or
Pleasure.

O.

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No. 422. Friday, July 4, 1712. Steele.

'Haec scripsi non otii abundantia sed amoris erga te.'

Tull. Epis.

I do not know any thing which gives greater Disturbance to Conversation,
than the false Notion some People have of Raillery. It ought certainly
to be the first Point to be aimed at in Society, to gain the good Will
of those with whom you converse. The Way to that, is to shew you are
well inclined towards them: What then can be more absurd, than to set up
for being extremely sharp and biting, as the Term is, in your
Expressions to your Familiars? A Man who has no good Quality but
Courage, is in a very ill way towards making an agreeable Figure in the
World, because that which he has superior to other People cannot be
exerted, without raising himself an _Enemy_. Your Gentleman of a
Satyrical Vein is in the like Condition. To say a Thing which perplexes
the Heart o