...Pictures'; and in an elaborate series of metaphors about the fading of memory he describes how in the mind 'the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the Imagery...moulders away. The Pictures drawn in our Minds, are laid in fading Colours.'*7 In speaking of the 'constant decay of all our ideas' Locke seems to be drawing...

...if they never had been there. (1.10.4) Thus the Ideas, as well as Children, of our Youth, often die before us: And our Minds represent to us those Tombs,...moulders away. The Pictures drawn in our Minds, are laid in fading Colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. (i.io.5) Each of these passages...

...remains nothing to be seen" once memory is lost is followed by an image of remains. And the statement "our Minds represent to us those Tombs, to which we are approaching" is a collapsing zeugma, where the verb begins to define two objects, and two meanings, but instead...

..."The ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us: and our minds represent to us the tombs to which we are approaching; where though the...inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery molders away."16 For the Romantics, what resists this effacement is the conversion of memory to imagination....

...explicitly in terms of picturing and imagery: The ideas, as well as children of our youth often die before us. And our minds represent to us those tombs...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours.13 We could thus sum up Locke's view of sense as follows (where the sense of "cube"...

...theme in "Tintern Abbey" and Tlie Prelude: "The ideas as well as the children of our youth often die before us, and our minds represent to us those tombs...are effaced by time and the imagery moulders away." This powerful passage, from Book II of Locke's Essay, lies immediately behind Wordsworth's desperate...

...last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus the Ideas, as well as Children, of our Youth, often die before us: And our Minds represent to us those Tombs,...are effaced by time, and the Imagery moulders away. 35 In this section of his discussion, Locke rarely mentions the acquisition of new "Ideas." The rhetorical...

...of memories as children: "Thus," he writes, "the Ideas, as well as Children, of our Youth, often die before us: And our Minds represent to us those Tombs,...moulders away. The pictures drawn in our Minds, are laid in fading Colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear" (Essay, 151-52). Locke's metaphor...

...last there remains nothing to be seen. Thus the Ideas, as well as Children, of our Youth, often die before us: And our Minds represent to us those Tombs,...effaced by time, and the Imagery moulders away.""" Locke's elegiac description of the decay of ideas in the mind resonates throughout Enlightenment and...

...Tristram's own: The liieas, as well as Children, of our Youth, often die before us: And our J\\mds represent to us those Tombs, to which we are approaching; where though the Brass and Marble remain, vet the Inscriptions are effaced by time, and Imagery moulders away. The Pictures drawn in our Minds,...