THE

PLEASURES

OF

MEMORY.

IN TWO PARTS.

Hoc est

Vivere bis, vitâ posse priore frui.

MART.

B

THE

PLEASURES OF MEMORY.

PART I.

Dolce sentier,

Colle, che mi piacesti,

Ov' ancor per usanza Amor mi mena;
Ben riconosco in voi l' usate forme,

Non, lasso, in me.

PETRARCH,

ANALYSIS

OF THE

FIRST PART.

THE Poem begins with the description of an obscure village, and of the pleasing melancholy which it excites on being revisited after a long absence. This mixed sensation is an effect of the Memory. From an effect we naturally ascend to the cause; and the subject proposed is then unfolded with an investigation of the nature and leading principles of

this faculty.