The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... length discloses every tuneful spring , To that harmonious movement from without , Responsive . Then the inexpreffive strain Diffufes its enchantment : fancy dreams · Of facred fountains and elyfian grovės , IIO 120 125 And And vales of ...
... length discloses every tuneful spring , To that harmonious movement from without , Responsive . Then the inexpreffive strain Diffufes its enchantment : fancy dreams · Of facred fountains and elyfian grovės , IIO 120 125 And And vales of ...
Pagina 17
... length fhould difapear , And infinite perfection close the 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 ...
... length fhould difapear , And infinite perfection close the 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 ...
Pagina 24
... length 445 To full meridian fplendour . Of degree The leaft and lowlieft , in th ' effufive warmth Of colours mingling with a random blaze , Doth beauty dwell . Then higher in the line And variation of determin'd fhape , 450 Where ...
... length 445 To full meridian fplendour . Of degree The leaft and lowlieft , in th ' effufive warmth Of colours mingling with a random blaze , Doth beauty dwell . Then higher in the line And variation of determin'd fhape , 450 Where ...
Pagina 32
... length acceptable , even when there is no room for the mind to refolve or act at all . In this cafe , the appearance must be accounted for , one of thete ways . The The pleasure from habit may be meerly negative . The 32 NOTES on.
... length acceptable , even when there is no room for the mind to refolve or act at all . In this cafe , the appearance must be accounted for , one of thete ways . The The pleasure from habit may be meerly negative . The 32 NOTES on.
Pagina 33
... length perceive its own mistake , and be reconcil'd to what it had look'd on with averfion . In which cafe a fort of instinctive justice naturally leads it to make amends for the injury , by running toward the other extreme of fondness ...
... length perceive its own mistake , and be reconcil'd to what it had look'd on with averfion . In which cafe a fort of instinctive justice naturally leads it to make amends for the injury , by running toward the other extreme of fondness ...
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Pagina 90 - Hence when lightning fires The arch of Heaven, and thunders rock the ground, When furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, And Ocean, groaning from his...
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Pagina 27 - Attentive turn ; from dim oblivion call Her fleet, ideal band ; and bid them, go ! Break through Time's barrier, and o'ertake the hour That saw the heavens created : then declare If aught were found in those external scenes To move thy wonder now.
Pagina 92 - The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Pagina 91 - And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Pagina 72 - An unknown depth ? Alas ! in such a mind. If no bright forms of excellence attend The image of his country; nor the pomp Of sacred senates, nor the guardian voice Of justice on her throne, nor aught that wakes...
Pagina 12 - Hence the green earth, and wild resounding waves, Hence light and shade alternate ; warmth and cold, And clear autumnal skies and vernal showers, And all the fair variety of things.
Pagina 41 - Would pass unheeded. Fair the face of Spring, When rural songs and odours wake the morn, To every eye; but how much more to his Round whom the bed of sickness long diffused Its melancholy gloom!
Pagina 84 - Like spectres trooping to the wizard's call, Flit swift before him. From the womb of Earth, From Ocean's bed, they come ; the eternal Heavens Disclose their splendours, and the dark Abyss Pours out her births unknown.