"Ideal Presence" and the "Non Finito" in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

Eric Rothstein

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YOUNG AULAY MACAULAY, fresh from M.A. at Glasgow (1778), informed the readers of his Essays (1780) that an ordinary writer spins out his thoughts, if I may so express myself, to the last dregs; but it is one great mark of original genius, to give scope to the invention of his reader, and to make one thought give rise to a whole of ideas. For example, Virgil's first Pastoral concludes with a thought, which raises in the mind a group of the finest images in nature. Macaulay gives the Latin and English translation-For see yon sunny hill the shade extends,/And curling smoke from cottages ascends-before presenting the train of ideas evoked in him by this ending:

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