The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 страница |
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... some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things , Of time , and fpace , and fate's unbroken chain , And will's quick impulfe : others by the hand She led o'er vales and monntains , to explore What healing virtue fwells the tender ...
... some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things , Of time , and fpace , and fate's unbroken chain , And will's quick impulfe : others by the hand She led o'er vales and monntains , to explore What healing virtue fwells the tender ...
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... Some philofophers affert an independent and invariable law in nature , in confequence of which all rational be-- ings muft alike perceive beauty in fome certain proportions , and deformity in the contrary . And this neceflity be- ing ...
... Some philofophers affert an independent and invariable law in nature , in confequence of which all rational be-- ings muft alike perceive beauty in fome certain proportions , and deformity in the contrary . And this neceflity be- ing ...
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... Some helpless bark ; while facred pity melts The general eye , or terror's icy hand Smites their diftorted limbs and horrent hairy While every mother closer to her breast Catches her child , and pointing where the waves Foam thro ' the ...
... Some helpless bark ; while facred pity melts The general eye , or terror's icy hand Smites their diftorted limbs and horrent hairy While every mother closer to her breast Catches her child , and pointing where the waves Foam thro ' the ...
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... Some in learning's garb , " 95 With formal band and fable - cinctur'd grown , And rags of mouldy volumes . Some elate With martial splendour , fteely pikes , and fwords Of 100 105 Of coftly frame , and gay Phoenician robes 74 The PLEASURES.
... Some in learning's garb , " 95 With formal band and fable - cinctur'd grown , And rags of mouldy volumes . Some elate With martial splendour , fteely pikes , and fwords Of 100 105 Of coftly frame , and gay Phoenician robes 74 The PLEASURES.
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... Some stubborn diffonance of things combin'd , Strikes on the quick obferver : whether pomp , Or praife or beauty mix their partial claim Where fordid fashions , where ignoble deeds , Where foul deformity are wont to dwell , Or whether ...
... Some stubborn diffonance of things combin'd , Strikes on the quick obferver : whether pomp , Or praife or beauty mix their partial claim Where fordid fashions , where ignoble deeds , Where foul deformity are wont to dwell , Or whether ...
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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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