"By these Allusions [similitudes, metaphors, and allegories] a Truth in the Understanding is as it were reflected by the Imagination; we are able to see something like Colour and Shape in a Notion, and to discover a Scheme of Thoughts traced out upon Matter"
Spectator, No. 421 [Pleasures of the Imagination]
Addison, Joseph, and Richard Steele. <u>Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator</u>. Ed. Robert J. Allen. Second ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1970.