...the fancy [which] are more conducive to health, than those of the understanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent a labour of the brain. 12 In the course of the eighteenth century, one can observe a developmental drift toward structurally...

...aktivierend, belebend und sie sind der Gesundheit zuträglich, dh sie haben eine therapeutische Funktion: Delightful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poetry, have a kindly Influence on the Body, äs well äs the Mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the Imagination, but are able to disperse...

...pleasures of the fancy are more conducive to health than those of the understanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent a labour of the brain. On this sentence, nothing occurs deserving of remark, except that 'worked out by dint of thinking1...

...Pleasures of the Fancy are more conducive to Health, than those of the Understanding, which are worked out by Dint of Thinking, and attended with too violent...Influence on the Body, as well as the Mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the Imagination, but are able to disperse Grief and Melancholly, and to...

...unlike the enjoyment of human artifacts, and it connects them alike to the reality of the human body. "Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or...kindly influence on the body as well as the mind" (no. 411). This practical observation is at least as old as Bacon, as Addison acknowledges; but perhaps...

...of visualiry. See Joseph Addison, The Spectator, ed. Gregory Smith, 4 vols. (London, 1907), 3:278: "Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting or...kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind." 37. See Peter Willis, Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden (London, 1977); Kimmerly Rorschach,...

...promiscuously] are more conducive to health, than those of the understanding, which are worked out by dint of thinking, and attended with too violent a labour of the brain. Delightful scènes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the...

...Pleasures of the Fancy are more conducive to Health, than those of the Understanding, which are worked out by Dint of Thinking, and attended with too violent a Labour of the Brain" (Spectator no. 411, 3:539). Not only is the pleasure of the imagination tied, as we have seen, to the...

...Third, it promotes health by inducing a pleasant state of mind. " Delightful scenes," says Addison, " whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly...influence on the body, as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions....