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the need of Addison in his essays to draw comparisons and grade the distinctions that he
makes, as when he describes the theatrical genre of tragicomedy as ‘one of the most
monstrous Inventions that ever entered into a Poet’s Thoughts’ (no. 40).
Two further semantic groups of clusters can be identified. Four clusters are clearly
structural in that they have a discourse signaling function in Addison’s essays, namely
for my own part, my own part I, if we look into, we look into the. The first two of these
signal that Addison is bout to express an opinion, while if we look into and we look into
the signal that an examination of a particular topic is coming. Finally, there are three
clusters of a mental nature – the mind of the, pleasures of the imagination, in the mind
of (recall that the words ideas and imagination are also ‘key’ in Addison’s essays).
As with keywords further clues as to the typical use of clusters can be gained by
inspecting the concordance lines for each cluster. I will illustrate this by briefly
discussing some of the collocates found in the concordance for the cluster in the mind
(see Figure 2 below).
1 ks, ought to end happily, and leave the Mind of the Reader, after havi
2 the foregoing Passage, and renew in the Mind of the Reader that Anguis
3 re apt to raise a secret Ferment in the Mind of the Reader, and to wor
4 raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader, and amuse
5 it is very apt to amuse and terrify the Mind of the Reader. Herodotus
6 rospects as are most apt to delight the Mind of the Beholder, I shall
7 rints an Awfulness and Reverence on the Mind of the Beholder, and stri
8 like the Ocean in a Calm, and fills the Mind of the Reader, without pr
9 o' not so apt to stir up Emotion in the Mind of the Reader, nor conseq
10 re than a secret Shame or Sorrow in the Mind of the suffering Person.
11 create either Attention or Horror. The Mind of the Reader is wonderfu
12 tances as should raise and astonish the Mind of the Reader; and at the
13 age or Sentiment, proper to inflame the Mind of the Reader, and to giv
14 e Discourse, but to amuse and relax the Mind of the Reader, by frequen
15 on, comes in very happily to unbend the Mind of the Reader from its At
Figure 2: Concordance for the mind of the (fifteen-line sample)
The main collocate ‘reader’ immediately following the cluster reflects the pervasiveness
of literary discussion in Addison’s essays, and the instances with ‘beholder’ (two shown
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