"<i>Babylon</i> in Ruins is not so melancholy a Spectacle" as a distracted Person, whose "imagination is troubled" and whose "whole soul [is] disordered and confused."
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.