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Rh struck the senses, which creates all the charms of poetry. A great reader is always quoting the description of another's emotions; a strong imagination delights to paint its own. A writer of genius makes us feel; an inferior author reason.

Some principle prior to self-love must have existed: the feeling which produced the pleasure, must have existed before the experience.