BOOK II PART II
and though these sensations appear not much
in our common indolent way of thinking, it is
easy, either in reading or conversation, to dis-
cover them. Men of wit always turn the dis-
course on subjects that are entertaining to the
imagination; and poets never present any ob-
jects but such as are of the same nature. Mr
Philips has chosencyderfor the subject of an
excellent poem. Beer would not have been
so proper, as being neither so agreeable to the
taste nor eye. But he would certainly have pre-
ferred wine to either of them, coued his na-
tive country have afforded him so agreeable a
liquor. We may learn from thence, that every
thing, which is agreeable to the senses, is also in
some measure agreeable to the fancy, and con-
veys to the thought an image of that satisfac-
tion, which it gives by its real application to the
bodily organs.