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Whoever, indeed, does this, will
find the powers oS imagination pleaSing
to him ; but whoever neglects it,
•will have always something either
real or imaginary to torment him.
Every one knows that it is the property
of a strong and lively imagination
to magnify all that is within its
reach, which is not only all that is
within nature, but even beyond nature.
It does not content itfelf with enhanceing
the woes it finds, but creates new
ones> and Such as are even morally
impossible should ever come to pais.
It also very frequently happens,
that endeavouring to avoid an imaginary
ill, we run into a real one ; and
fo strongly has this self-deception
Sometimes been, that all the remon -
strances made by our friends, or by
M A G A2 IN E ofMA^A21N^
Heav'n, from all creatures, hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescrih'd, their present state ;
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know,
Or who could suffer being here below?
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
Had he thy wisdom, would he skip and play ^
Pleas 'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to spill his bland.
The Marquis de Park. in his excellent
treatile intitled " Rules for the
well regulating the mind,'' gives us,
among many others, this maxim :