art of recollection by children. Exercise of memory in
learning languages. 196. Supposed faculty of language.
NATURE AND OFFICE OF IMAGINATION.
197. Nature of imagination. 198. Its relation to the category
of possibility. Erroneous conception of it. 199. Generic
orders of imaginations. 200. Conditionality of imaginations.
201. Works of imagination are works of judgment. 202. Co-
existence of imaginations and judgments, and their similar
origin. 203. Exercises of imagination, how impeded and
how promoted. 204. Distinctness of conception in imagi-
nation, how attained; dreams. 205. Use of imagination in
completing conceptions and judgments. 206. Symbolical
nature of imaginations, and their relation to realities.
207. Fancy. 208. Use of imagination in history. 209. Per-
fection of historical ideas by imagination.
NATURE OF POETRY AND OTHER WORKS OF IMAGINATION. 145
210. Use of imagination in poetry, with examples. 211. Great
imaginations attendant on great reasoning powers; Milton.
212. Exercise of reason in forming the plan of Paradise
Lost; and in executing it, with examples. 213. Nature of
Paradise Lost and end of all poetry. 214. Nature of novels.
216. Cervantes and Don Quixotte. 216. Walter Scott.
217. Waverly, and other novels.