The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem, in Three Books. By Mark Akenside, M.D. ...A. Wilson, 1744 - 108 страница |
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... cloud , whofe darkfome veil Involves the orient ; and that trickling shower Piercing through every crystalline convex Of cluft'ring dew - drops to their flight oppos'd , Recoil at length where concave all behind The internal furface of ...
... cloud , whofe darkfome veil Involves the orient ; and that trickling shower Piercing through every crystalline convex Of cluft'ring dew - drops to their flight oppos'd , Recoil at length where concave all behind The internal furface of ...
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... cloud came floating through the sky , And pois'd at length within the circling trees , Hung obvious to my view ; till opening wide Its lucid orb , a more than human form Emerging lean'd majestic o'er my head , And inftant thunder fhook ...
... cloud came floating through the sky , And pois'd at length within the circling trees , Hung obvious to my view ; till opening wide Its lucid orb , a more than human form Emerging lean'd majestic o'er my head , And inftant thunder fhook ...
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... clouds , Her stately form invested . Hand in hand Th ' immortal pair forfook th ' enamell'd green , Afcending flowly . Rays of limpid light 435 Gleam'd round their path ; celeftial founds were heard , And through the fragrant air ...
... clouds , Her stately form invested . Hand in hand Th ' immortal pair forfook th ' enamell'd green , Afcending flowly . Rays of limpid light 435 Gleam'd round their path ; celeftial founds were heard , And through the fragrant air ...
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... clouds , With dreadful action . Black as night his brow Relentless frowns involv'd . His favage limbs 510 With sharp impatience violent he writh'd , As thro ' convulfive anguish ; and his hand , Arm'd with a fcorpion - lafh , full oft ...
... clouds , With dreadful action . Black as night his brow Relentless frowns involv'd . His favage limbs 510 With sharp impatience violent he writh'd , As thro ' convulfive anguish ; and his hand , Arm'd with a fcorpion - lafh , full oft ...
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... clouds Flew diverse , and amid the blue serene Euphrofyne appear'd . With sprightly step The nymph alighted on th ' irriguous lawn , And to her wond'ring audience thus began . 640 Lo ! I am here to answer to your vows , And be the ...
... clouds Flew diverse , and amid the blue serene Euphrofyne appear'd . With sprightly step The nymph alighted on th ' irriguous lawn , And to her wond'ring audience thus began . 640 Lo ! I am here to answer to your vows , And be the ...
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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.