The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 страница |
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... kind , without running either into the gigantic expreffions of the mock - heroic , or the familiar and pointed raillery of profess'd fatire ; neither of which would have been proper here . The materials of all imitation being thus laid ...
... kind , without running either into the gigantic expreffions of the mock - heroic , or the familiar and pointed raillery of profess'd fatire ; neither of which would have been proper here . The materials of all imitation being thus laid ...
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... kind páternal care , Worthier I'd fing : then all th ' enamour'd youth , With each admiring virgin to my lyre 325 Should throng attentive , while I point on high Where beauty's living image , like the morn That wakes in Zephyr's arms ...
... kind páternal care , Worthier I'd fing : then all th ' enamour'd youth , With each admiring virgin to my lyre 325 Should throng attentive , while I point on high Where beauty's living image , like the morn That wakes in Zephyr's arms ...
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... in each kind Still more illuftrious where the object holds Its native powers moft perfect , the by this , 340 345 350 355 360 Illumes Illumes the headlong impulfe of defire , And fanctifies his Book I. of IMAGINATION . 21.
... in each kind Still more illuftrious where the object holds Its native powers moft perfect , the by this , 340 345 350 355 360 Illumes Illumes the headlong impulfe of defire , And fanctifies his Book I. of IMAGINATION . 21.
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... kind acceffion flow , To raise harmonious fancy's native charm ? So while we taste the fragrance of the rofe Glows not her blush the fairer ? while we view 75 Amid the noon - tide walk a limpid rill Gufh thro ' the trickling herbage ...
... kind acceffion flow , To raise harmonious fancy's native charm ? So while we taste the fragrance of the rofe Glows not her blush the fairer ? while we view 75 Amid the noon - tide walk a limpid rill Gufh thro ' the trickling herbage ...
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... kind access of joy , That fprings to each fair object , while we trace , Thro ' all its fabric , wifdom's artful aim Difpofing every part , and gaining still By means proportion'd her benignant end ? Speak , ye , the pure delight ...
... kind access of joy , That fprings to each fair object , while we trace , Thro ' all its fabric , wifdom's artful aim Difpofing every part , and gaining still By means proportion'd her benignant end ? Speak , ye , the pure delight ...
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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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