action or suffering, and of time; see the Note on Canto III.
l. 371, of this work.]

"Call'd by thy voice contiguous thoughts embrace
In endless streams arranged by Time or Place; 300
The Muse historic hence in every age
Gives to the world her _interesting_ page;
While in bright landscape from her moving pen
Rise the fine tints of manners and of men.

[Footnote: _Call'd by thy voice_, l. 299. The numerous trains
of associated ideas are divided by Mr. Hume into three
classes, which he has termed contiguity, causation, and
resemblance. Nor should we wonder to find them thus connected
together, since it is the business of our lives to dispose
them into these three classes; and we become valuable to
ourselves and our friends as we succeed in it. Those who have
combined an extensive class of ideas by the contiguity of
time or place, are men learned in the history of mankind, and
of the sciences they have cultivated. Those who have
connected a great class of ideas of resemblances, possess the
source of the ornaments of poetry and oratory, and of all
rational analogy. While those who have connected great
classes of ideas of causation, are furnished with the powers
of producing effects. These are the men of active wisdom who
lead armies to victory, and kingdoms to prosperity; or
discover and improve the sciences which meliorate and adorn
the condition of humanity.]

"Call'd by thy voice Resemblance next describes
Her sister-thoughts in lucid trains or tribes;
Whence pleased Imagination oft combines
By loose analogies her fair designs;
Each winning grace of polish'd wit bestows
To deck the Nymphs of Poetry and Prose. 310

[Footnote: _Polish'd wit bestows_, l. 309. Mr. Locke defines
wit to consist of an assemblage of ideas, brought together
with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any
resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant
pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy. To which Mr.
Addison adds, that these must occasion surprise as well as
delight; Spectator, Vol. I. No. LXII. See Note on Canto III.
l. 145. and Additional Note, VII. 3. Perhaps wit in the
extended use of the