The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 страница |
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... scenes To this neglecting labour court my fong ; Yet not ( b ) unconscious what a doubtful task , To paint the finest features of the mind , And to moft fubtile and myfterious things 40 45 Give colour , strength and motion . But the ...
... scenes To this neglecting labour court my fong ; Yet not ( b ) unconscious what a doubtful task , To paint the finest features of the mind , And to moft fubtile and myfterious things 40 45 Give colour , strength and motion . But the ...
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... scene . " 220 Call now to mind what high , capacious pow'rs Lie folded up in man ; how far beyond The praise of mortals , may th ' eternal growth Of nature to perfection half divine , 225 Expand the blooming foul ? What pity then Should ...
... scene . " 220 Call now to mind what high , capacious pow'rs Lie folded up in man ; how far beyond The praise of mortals , may th ' eternal growth Of nature to perfection half divine , 225 Expand the blooming foul ? What pity then Should ...
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... scene ? Fair Tempe haunt belov'd of fylvan pow'rs ,. Of nymphs and fawns ; where in the golden age 300 They play'd in fecret on the fhady brink With antient Pan while round their choral steps B 2 Your g Young hours and genial gales with ...
... scene ? Fair Tempe haunt belov'd of fylvan pow'rs ,. Of nymphs and fawns ; where in the golden age 300 They play'd in fecret on the fhady brink With antient Pan while round their choral steps B 2 Your g Young hours and genial gales with ...
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... olive crowns The gate ; where honour's liberal hands effuse Unenvy'd treafures , and the fnowy wings Of innocence and love protect the scene ? 505 510 Once Once more fearch , undismay'd , the dark profound Where 26 PLEASURES The.
... olive crowns The gate ; where honour's liberal hands effuse Unenvy'd treafures , and the fnowy wings Of innocence and love protect the scene ? 505 510 Once Once more fearch , undismay'd , the dark profound Where 26 PLEASURES The.
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... scene , The flame of paffion , thro ' the struggling fout Deep - kindled , fhows across that fudden blaze The object of its rapture , vaft of fize , With fiercer colours , and a night of shade ? What ? like a ftorm from their capacious ...
... scene , The flame of paffion , thro ' the struggling fout Deep - kindled , fhows across that fudden blaze The object of its rapture , vaft of fize , With fiercer colours , and a night of shade ? What ? like a ftorm from their capacious ...
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Academus afcent affociate alfo Amid apprehenfion Aristophanes Arrian arts awful band beauty becauſe behold blooming bluſhing bofom breaſt breath charms chear circumftances cœleftial confequence dæmon defign delight divine earth eternal facred fair falfe fame fancy fatire fays fcene fearch fecret fenfe fhade fhall fhould final caufe fince firft flow'rs fmiles folemn fome fong foon fordid foul fources fpecies fpirit fprings frame ftrain ftreams fubject fublime fuch hand harmonious heart heav'n himſelf honours illuftrated imagination impulfe inchanted inftance Italian poetry Line Lucretius lyre majeſtic meaſure mind moft moral moſt mufe mufic nature nature's o'er objects paffions philofophy Plato pleafing pleaſure pomp pow'rs praiſe prefence profpect purſue radiant reafon ridiculous rife rofy ſcene ſcience ſhade ſhall ſhapes ſmiles Socrates ſtate ſteps ſtill ſtore taſte thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro toil truth univerfal uſe Whate'er whofe whoſe wiſdom youth
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