The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 страница |
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... tongue confeffes ; the SUBLIME 145 The WONDERFUL , the FAIR . I fee them dawn ! I fee the radiant vifions , where they rife , More lovely than when Lucifer displays His beaming forehead thro ' the gates of morn , To lead the train of ...
... tongue confeffes ; the SUBLIME 145 The WONDERFUL , the FAIR . I fee them dawn ! I fee the radiant vifions , where they rife , More lovely than when Lucifer displays His beaming forehead thro ' the gates of morn , To lead the train of ...
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... tongue , the Promethean band Afpire to antient praife ? Alas ! how faint , How flow the dawn of beauty and of truth Breaks the reluctant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations , long they groan'd Beneath the furies of ...
... tongue , the Promethean band Afpire to antient praife ? Alas ! how faint , How flow the dawn of beauty and of truth Breaks the reluctant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations , long they groan'd Beneath the furies of ...
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... tongue Was tun'd for flavish pæans at the throne Of tinfel pomp ; and Raphael's magic hand Effus'd its fair creation to inchant The fond adoring herd in Latian fanes To blind belief ; while on their proftrate necks The fable tyrant ...
... tongue Was tun'd for flavish pæans at the throne Of tinfel pomp ; and Raphael's magic hand Effus'd its fair creation to inchant The fond adoring herd in Latian fanes To blind belief ; while on their proftrate necks The fable tyrant ...
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... tongue . Nor ever yet The melting rainbow's vernal - tinctur'd hues To me have fhone fo pleafing , as when first The hand of fcience pointed out the path In which the fun - beams gleaming from the west Fall on the watry cloud , whofe ...
... tongue . Nor ever yet The melting rainbow's vernal - tinctur'd hues To me have fhone fo pleafing , as when first The hand of fcience pointed out the path In which the fun - beams gleaming from the west Fall on the watry cloud , whofe ...
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... tongue Th ' unalter'd will of heav'n with faithful awe Reveals ; what old Harmodius wont to teach My early age ; Harmodius , who had weigh'd Within his learned mind whate'er the schools Of wisdom , or thy lonely whifp'ring voice O ...
... tongue Th ' unalter'd will of heav'n with faithful awe Reveals ; what old Harmodius wont to teach My early age ; Harmodius , who had weigh'd Within his learned mind whate'er the schools Of wisdom , or thy lonely whifp'ring voice O ...
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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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