The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 страница |
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... round the wide horizon to survey The Nile or Ganges rowl his wasteful tide 181 Thro ' mountains , plains , thro ' empires black with fhade And continents of fand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at ...
... round the wide horizon to survey The Nile or Ganges rowl his wasteful tide 181 Thro ' mountains , plains , thro ' empires black with fhade And continents of fand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at ...
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... rounds of time . Thence far effus'd She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious comets ; thro ' its burning figns Exulting circles the perennial wheel Of nature , and looks back on all the stars , Whose blended light , as with ...
... rounds of time . Thence far effus'd She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious comets ; thro ' its burning figns Exulting circles the perennial wheel Of nature , and looks back on all the stars , Whose blended light , as with ...
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... round the blazing hearth , Sufpends the infant - audience with her tales , Breathing aftonifhment ! of witching rhymes , ] And evil fpirits ; of the death - bed call 255 To him who robb'd the widow , and devour'd 260 The orphan's ...
... round the blazing hearth , Sufpends the infant - audience with her tales , Breathing aftonifhment ! of witching rhymes , ] And evil fpirits ; of the death - bed call 255 To him who robb'd the widow , and devour'd 260 The orphan's ...
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... 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 constant hand Show'r'd bloffoms Book I. of IMAGINATION . 19.
... 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 constant hand Show'r'd bloffoms Book I. of IMAGINATION . 19.
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... round her brow To twine the wreath of incorruptive praise ; To trace her hallow'd light thro ' future worlds , And bless heav'n's image in the heart of man . 435 THUS with a faithful aim have we prefum'd , Advent'rous , to delineate ...
... round her brow To twine the wreath of incorruptive praise ; To trace her hallow'd light thro ' future worlds , And bless heav'n's image in the heart of man . 435 THUS with a faithful aim have we prefum'd , Advent'rous , to delineate ...
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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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