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108 A TOUR THROUGH
seize,—to make ourselves matters of the
reader's imagination, to carry it along with
us through every scene, and make it in a
manner congenial with our own; every
prospect opening upon him with the same
light, and arising in the same colours, and
at the same instant too, as upon us: For
where descriptions fail in this, the pleasure
of reading them must be very trivial.
Now, perhaps, this same journal style is the
most favourable of any to produce these
effects. It is at least the most agree-
able to the writer; who never has his
subject to seek, but needs only recoiled
what has passed since he last laid down the
pen, and travel the day over again; and if
he travels it to good purpose, it ought to
be equally agreeable to the reader too, who
thereby becomes one of the party, and
bears a share in all the pleasures of the
journey without suffering from the fatigues
of it.
One
seize,—to make ourselves matters of the
reader's imagination, to carry it along with
us through every scene, and make it in a
manner congenial with our own; every
prospect opening upon him with the same
light, and arising in the same colours, and
at the same instant too, as upon us: For
where descriptions fail in this, the pleasure
of reading them must be very trivial.
Now, perhaps, this same journal style is the
most favourable of any to produce these
effects. It is at least the most agree-
able to the writer; who never has his
subject to seek, but needs only recoiled
what has passed since he last laid down the
pen, and travel the day over again; and if
he travels it to good purpose, it ought to
be equally agreeable to the reader too, who
thereby becomes one of the party, and
bears a share in all the pleasures of the
journey without suffering from the fatigues
of it.
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