New,
or Beautiful, unknown. Why the Final Cause more known and more useful.
The Final Cause of our being pleased with what is Great. The Final
Cause of our being pleased with what is New. The Final Cause of our
being pleased with what is Beautiful in our own Species. The Final
Cause of our being pleased with what is Beautiful in general.

PAPER IV. [No. 414, Volume 2.]

The Works of Nature more pleasant to the Imagination than those of
Art. The Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble
those of Art. The Works of Art more pleasant, the more they resemble
those of Nature. Our English Plantations and Gardens considered in the
foregoing Light.

PAPER V. [No. 415, Volume 2.]

Of Architecture as it affects the Imagination. Greatness in
Architecture relates either to the Bulk or to the Manner. Greatness of
Bulk in the Ancient Oriental Buildings. The ancient Accounts of these
Buildings confirm'd,

1. From the Advantages, for raising such Works, in the first Ages of
the World and in the Eastern Climates:

2. From several of them which are still extant.

Instances how Greatness of Manner affects the Imagination. A French
Author's Observation on this Subject. Why Concave and Convex Figures
give a Greatness of Manner to Works of Architecture. Every thing that
pleases the Imagination in Architecture is either Great, Beautiful, or
New.

PAPER VI. [No. 416, Volume 2.]

The Secondary Pleasures of the Imagination. The several Sources of
these Pleasures (Statuary, Painting, Description and Musick) compared
together. The Final Cause of our receiving Pleasure from these several
Sources. Of Descriptions in particular. The Power of Words over the
Imagination. Why one Reader more pleased with Descriptions than
another.

PAPER VII. [No. 417, Volume 3.]

How a whole Set of Ideas Hang together, &c. A Natural Cause assigned
for it. How to perfect the Imagination of a Writer. Who among the
Ancient Poets had this Faculty in its greatest Perfection. Homer
excelled in Imagining what is Great; Virgil in Imagining what is
Beautiful; Ovid in imagining what is New. Our own Country-man Milton
very perfect in all three respects.

PAPER VIII. [No. 418, Volume 3.]

Why any thing that is unpleasant to behold, pleases the Imagination
when well described. Why the Imagination receives a more Exquisite
Pleasure from the Description of w