...of him whose fortunes we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever notions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves." 65 A deception takes place, but rather than allowing us to feel what the other feels, it enables us...

...sympathize with a life well told. The detail of personal experience is necessary, since "[o]ur passions" are "more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally...

...it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever...excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves" (Rambler 3:31819). Accordingly, sympathy affords a powerful if not the sole motive to relieve or preserve...

...of imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote . . . Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains and the pleasures proposed to our minds" (1n, 318-19). The sympathetic experience described here is...

...biography, and the novel. In his Rambler 60 (13 October 1750), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) tells us why: Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in...proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally...

...biography, and the novel. In his Rambler 60 (13 October 1750), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) tells us why: "Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in...proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally...

...event [of others' happiness or calamities] however fictitious, or approximates it however remote. . . . We feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions...excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves" (my emphasis). Johnson spatializes identification as an increase in proximity, while his contemporary...

...biography, the novel, and history. In his Rambler 60 (13 October 1750) Samuel Johnson tells us why: Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in...proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally...

...of him whose fortunes we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever emotions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves. [2] Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the...

...however fictitious ... by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever...would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves".)3' So, given the understanding of identification through sympathy, and the implications...