"Their Imaginations are thin, and delicate; and play lightly on the Skirts of Objects: But they are too weak for solid Reasoning; and, in any Thing abstracted, and above the Pitch of the Senses, they are miserably Impotent, and grow presently weary."
The Plain Dealer, No 8
Text from <u>The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes</u> (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) &lt;<a href="">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="">Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;
