The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem, in Three Books. By Mark Akenside, M.D. ...A. Wilson, 1744 - 108 страница |
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... Bends from his awful throne a wondering ear , And fmiles ; the paffions , gently footh'd away , Sink to divine repofe , and love and joy Alone are waking ; love and joy , ferene As airs that fan the fummer . O ! attend , 125 130 Whoe'er ...
... Bends from his awful throne a wondering ear , And fmiles ; the paffions , gently footh'd away , Sink to divine repofe , and love and joy Alone are waking ; love and joy , ferene As airs that fan the fummer . O ! attend , 125 130 Whoe'er ...
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... Bend the reluctant planets to abfolve The fated rounds of time . Thence far effus'd 195 She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious comets ; through its burning figns Exulting measures the perennial wheel Of nature , and looks ...
... Bend the reluctant planets to abfolve The fated rounds of time . Thence far effus'd 195 She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious comets ; through its burning figns Exulting measures the perennial wheel Of nature , and looks ...
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... bends With hairy softness from the marble neck , The cheek fair - blooming , and the rosy lip , Where winning smiles and pleasures sweet as love , 320 -With fanctity and wisdom , tempering blend Their foft allurement . Then the pleasing ...
... bends With hairy softness from the marble neck , The cheek fair - blooming , and the rosy lip , Where winning smiles and pleasures sweet as love , 320 -With fanctity and wisdom , tempering blend Their foft allurement . Then the pleasing ...
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... bends With blushing treasures . But more lovely still Is nature's charm , where to the full confent Of complicated members , to the bloom Of colour , and the vital change of growth , Life's holy flame and piercing sense are given , And ...
... bends With blushing treasures . But more lovely still Is nature's charm , where to the full confent Of complicated members , to the bloom Of colour , and the vital change of growth , Life's holy flame and piercing sense are given , And ...
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... bends each nerve , and meditates well pleas'd Her features in the mirror . For of all The inhabitants of earth , to man alone Creative Wisdom gave to lift his eye To truth's eternal measures ; thence to frame 540 The facred laws of ...
... bends each nerve , and meditates well pleas'd Her features in the mirror . For of all The inhabitants of earth , to man alone Creative Wisdom gave to lift his eye To truth's eternal measures ; thence to frame 540 The facred laws of ...
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afcent affociation almoſt Amid Arrian arts awful beauty becauſe behold blooming bluſhing bofom breaſt breath Celeſtial charms circumftances confcious confequence defign defires delight diff'rent divine earth eſpecially eternal facred fage fair falfe fame Fancy fatire fays fcene fearch fecret feek feems fenfe fhades fhall fhould final caufe fince firſt fmiles fome fong foon fordid foul fpecies fprings frame ftrain ftreams fubject fublime fuch hand harmonious heart heaven honours imagination impulfe infpiration inftance Italian poetry juſt laft Lucretius lyre majeſtic meaſures mind moffy moral moſt mufe myſterious nature Nature's neral o'er obfervation objects paffion philofophy Plato pleafing pleaſing pleaſure PLEASURES O F pomp powers praiſe profpect radiant raiſe reafon ridiculous rife rill rofy ſcan ſcene ſenſe ſhade ſhall ſhape ſmiles Socrates ſtate ſteps ſtill ſweet taſte thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou toil treaſures truth univerfal Whate'er whofe whoſe Wiſdom youth
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Страница 1 - There are certain powers in human nature which seem to hold a middle place between the organs of bodily sense and the faculties of moral perception: they have been called by a very general name, the Powers of Imagination.
Страница 33 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness earth and heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the graces ; here enthron'd, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Страница 52 - Holiest of things! by which the general orb Of being, as by adamantine links, Was drawn to perfect union, and sustain'd From everlasting?
Страница 29 - Where beauty seems to dwell, nor once inquire Where is the sanction of eternal truth, Or where the seal of undeceitful good, To save your search from folly ? Wanting these, Lo ! beauty withers in your void embrace, 385 And with the glittering of an idiot's toy Did fancy mock your vows.