The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem, in Three Books. By Mark Akenside, M.D. ...A. Wilson, 1744 - 108 страница |
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... charms this goodly frame Of Nature touches the confenting hearts Of mortal men ; and what the pleafing ftores Which beauteous Imitation thence derives To deck the poet's , or the painter's toil ; My verfe unfolds . Attend , ye gentle ...
... charms this goodly frame Of Nature touches the confenting hearts Of mortal men ; and what the pleafing ftores Which beauteous Imitation thence derives To deck the poet's , or the painter's toil ; My verfe unfolds . Attend , ye gentle ...
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... charms , Enamour'd ; they partake the eternal joy . For as old Memnon's image , long renown'd By fabling Nilus , to the quivering touch Of Titan's ray , with each repulfive string Confenting , founded through the warbling air Unbidden ...
... charms , Enamour'd ; they partake the eternal joy . For as old Memnon's image , long renown'd By fabling Nilus , to the quivering touch Of Titan's ray , with each repulfive string Confenting , founded through the warbling air Unbidden ...
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... grateful terror quell'd . 270 But lo ! difclos'd in all her smiling pomp , Where Beauty onward moving claims the verse Her charms infpire : the freely - flowing verfe • In thy immortal praife , O form divine ! OF IMAGINATION . 23.
... grateful terror quell'd . 270 But lo ! difclos'd in all her smiling pomp , Where Beauty onward moving claims the verse Her charms infpire : the freely - flowing verfe • In thy immortal praife , O form divine ! OF IMAGINATION . 23.
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... charm Confefs'd in aught , whose most peculiar ends Are lame and fruitlefs ? Or did Nature mean This pleafing call the herald of a lie ; To hide the shame of discord and disease , And catch with fair hypocrify the heart Of idle faith ...
... charm Confefs'd in aught , whose most peculiar ends Are lame and fruitlefs ? Or did Nature mean This pleafing call the herald of a lie ; To hide the shame of discord and disease , And catch with fair hypocrify the heart Of idle faith ...
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... charm of animated things , Are only pledges of a state fincere , Th ' integrity and order of their frame , When all is well within , and every end Accomplish'd . Thus was Beauty sent from heaven , The lovely mistress of Truth and Good ...
... charm of animated things , Are only pledges of a state fincere , Th ' integrity and order of their frame , When all is well within , and every end Accomplish'd . Thus was Beauty sent from heaven , The lovely mistress of Truth and Good ...
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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.
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