Chapter II.-Of Imagination Associative.

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§1. Of simple conception. 147
§2. How connected with verbal knowledge. 148
§3. How used in composition. 148
§4. Characteristics of composition. 149
§5. What powers are implied by it. The first of the three functions of fancy. 150
§6. Imagination not yet manifested. 150
§7. Imagination is the correlative conception of imperfect component parts. 151
§8. Material analogy with imagination. 151
§9. The grasp and dignity of imagination. 152
§10. Its limits. 153
§11. How manifested in treatment of uncertain relations. Its deficiency illustrated. 154
§12. Laws of art, the safeguard of the unimaginative. 155
§13. Are by the imaginative painter despised. Tests of imagination. 155
§14. The monotony of unimaginative treatment. 156
§15. Imagination never repeats itself. 157
§16. Relation of the imaginative faculty to the theoretic. 157
§17. Modification of its manifestation. 158
§18. Instances of absence of imagination.—Claude, Gaspar Poussin. 158
§19. Its presence.—Salvator, Nicolo Poussin, Titian, Tintoret. 159
§20. And Turner. 160
§21. The due function of Associative imagination with respect to nature. 161
§22. The sign of imaginative work is its appearance of absolute truth. 161
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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