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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
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CHAP. IV. Of the Fancy: Its offices to the Will and Reason, Volubility of Thoughts, Fictions, Errors, Levity, Fixedness.
CHAP. IV. Of the Fancie: Its offices to the Will and Reason, Uolubilitie of Thoughts, Fictions, Errors, Levitie, Fixednesse.
Now for the Imagination, the dignity thereof consists, either in the office, or in the latitude of it: Its office, is to be assistant both to the Understanding and the Will; its assistance to the Understanding, is principally in matter of Invention, readily to supply it with variety of objects whereon to work, as also to quicken and raise the Mind with a kind of heat and rapterie proportionable in the inferior part of the Soul, to that which in the superior, Philosophers call Ecstasy; whereby it is possessed with such a strong delight in its prope• obje•, as makes the motions thereof towards ⟨p. 19⟩it, to be restless and impatient: And of this, is that of the Poet;
NOw for the Imagination, the dignitie thereof consists, either in the office, or in the latitude of it: Its office, is to be assistant both to the Vnderstanding and the Will; its assistance to the Vnderstanding, is principally in matter of Invention, readily to supply it with varietie of objects whereon to worke, as also to quicken and rayse the Minde with a kind of heat and rapterie proportionable in the inferior part of the Soule, to that which in the superior, Philosophers call Ext•sie; whereby it is possessed with such a strong delight in its prope• obje•, as makes the motions thereof towards ⟨p. 19⟩it, to be restlesse and impatient: And of this, is that of the Poet;