The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... most exquifite pleasures we are acquainted with , men of warm and fenfible tempers have fought means to recall the de- lightful perceptions they afford , independent of the objects which originally produced them . This gave fe to the i ...
... most exquifite pleasures we are acquainted with , men of warm and fenfible tempers have fought means to recall the de- lightful perceptions they afford , independent of the objects which originally produced them . This gave fe to the i ...
Pagina 4
... most applau- ded poems , we meet with either ideas drawn from the ex- ternal fenfes , or truths difcover'd to the understanding , or illuftrations of contrivance and final caufes , or above all the reft , with circumstances proper to ...
... most applau- ded poems , we meet with either ideas drawn from the ex- ternal fenfes , or truths difcover'd to the understanding , or illuftrations of contrivance and final caufes , or above all the reft , with circumstances proper to ...
Pagina 6
... most perject modern poets , who has fo happily applied this manner to the nobleft parts of philofophy , that the public tafte is in a great measure form'd to it alone . Yet , ajter all , the Jubject before us tending almost conftantly ...
... most perject modern poets , who has fo happily applied this manner to the nobleft parts of philofophy , that the public tafte is in a great measure form'd to it alone . Yet , ajter all , the Jubject before us tending almost conftantly ...
Pagina 21
... most peculiar ends Are lame and fruitlefs ? Or did nature mean This awful stamp the herald of a lie ; To hide the fhame of discord and disease , And catch with fair hypocrify the heart Of idle faith ? O no ! with better cares Th ...
... most peculiar ends Are lame and fruitlefs ? Or did nature mean This awful stamp the herald of a lie ; To hide the fhame of discord and disease , And catch with fair hypocrify the heart Of idle faith ? O no ! with better cares Th ...
Pagina 35
... most perfect in themselves , that fo we might be engaged to the choice of them at once and without ftaying to infer their use- fulness from their ftructure and effects ; but that it is not impoffible , in a phyfical fenfe , that two ...
... most perfect in themselves , that fo we might be engaged to the choice of them at once and without ftaying to infer their use- fulness from their ftructure and effects ; but that it is not impoffible , in a phyfical fenfe , that two ...
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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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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...
Pagina 18 - Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, In foreign climes to rove : the pensive sage, Heedless of sleep, or midnight's harmful damp, Hangs o'er the sickly taper ; and untir'd The virgin follows, with enchanted step, 250 The mazes of some wild and wondrous tale, From morn to eve...
Pagina 16 - Maker said, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of Renown, Power's purple robes, nor Pleasure's flowery lap, The...
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.