The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 pagina's |
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... afcent 20 25 30 35 Of high Parnaffus . Nature's kindling breath Muft fire the chofen genius ; nature's hand Muft point the path , and imp his eagle - wings Ex- Exulting o'er the painful steep to foar High as the 10 The PLEASURES.
... afcent 20 25 30 35 Of high Parnaffus . Nature's kindling breath Muft fire the chofen genius ; nature's hand Muft point the path , and imp his eagle - wings Ex- Exulting o'er the painful steep to foar High as the 10 The PLEASURES.
Pagina 11
A Poem in Three Books Mark Akenside. Exulting o'er the painful steep to foar High as the fummit : there to breath at large Etherial air ; with bards and fages old , Immortal fors of praise . These flatt'ring scenes To this neglecting ...
A Poem in Three Books Mark Akenside. Exulting o'er the painful steep to foar High as the fummit : there to breath at large Etherial air ; with bards and fages old , Immortal fors of praise . These flatt'ring scenes To this neglecting ...
Pagina 12
... o'er vales and monntains , to explore What healing virtue fwells the tender veins . Of herbs and flow'rs ; or what the beams of morn Draw forth , diftilling from the clifted rind In balmy tears . But fome to higher hopes Were deftin'd ...
... o'er vales and monntains , to explore What healing virtue fwells the tender veins . Of herbs and flow'rs ; or what the beams of morn Draw forth , diftilling from the clifted rind In balmy tears . But fome to higher hopes Were deftin'd ...
Pagina 16
... o'er the fun , Beholds him pouring the redundant stream Of light ; beholds his unrelenting ( way Bend the relucting planets to abfolve The fated rounds of time . Thence far effus'd She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious ...
... o'er the fun , Beholds him pouring the redundant stream Of light ; beholds his unrelenting ( way Bend the relucting planets to abfolve The fated rounds of time . Thence far effus'd She darts her fwiftnefs up the long career Of devious ...
Pagina 18
... o'er the fickly taper ; and untir'd The virgin follows , with inchanted step , The mazes of fome wild and wond'rous tale , From morn to eve ; unmindful of her form , ' Unmindful of the happy drefs that stole The wishes of the youth ...
... o'er the fickly taper ; and untir'd The virgin follows , with inchanted step , The mazes of fome wild and wond'rous tale , From morn to eve ; unmindful of her form , ' Unmindful of the happy drefs that stole The wishes of the 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.