covered his need of a larger vocabu-
lary he took some of the tales which
he found in an odd volume of the
"Spectator" and turned them into
verse; "and after a time, when I
had pretty well forgotten the prose,
turned them back again. I also
sometimes jumbled my collections
of hints into confusion, and after
some weeks endeavoured to reduce
them into the best order before I
began to form the full sentences and
compleat the paper." Such a patient
recasting of material for the ends of
verbal exactness and accuracy sug-
gests ways in which the imagination
may deal with characters and scenes
in order to stimulate and foster its
own activity. It is well to recall at
frequent intervals the story we read
in some dramatist, poet, or novelist,
in order that the imagination may

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