IMAGE, in Rhetoric, signifies a lively representation of any thing in discourse. Images, in discourse, are, according to Longinus, any thoughts proper to produce expressions, which present a kind of picture to the mind. But, in the more limited sense, images are such expressions as fall from us when, by a kind of enthusiasm, or an extraordinary emotion of the soul, we seem to see the things of which we speak, and present them before the eyes of those who hear us.