The Pleasures of Imagination: A Poem in Three BooksR. Dodsley, 1744 - 125 páginas |
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... fecret paths erewhile untrod by man , The fair poetic region , to detect Untafted fprings , to drink infpiring draughts ; And fhade my temples with unfading flow'rs . Cull'd from the laureat vale's profound recefs , Where never poet ...
... fecret paths erewhile untrod by man , The fair poetic region , to detect Untafted fprings , to drink infpiring draughts ; And fhade my temples with unfading flow'rs . Cull'd from the laureat vale's profound recefs , Where never poet ...
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... nymphs and fawns ; 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 .
... nymphs and fawns ; 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 .
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... fecret ; view the beds Of min❜ral treafure , and th ' eternal vault That bounds the hoary ocean , trace the forms Of atoms moving with inceffant change Their elemental round ; behold the feeds Of being , and the energy of life 515 ...
... fecret ; view the beds Of min❜ral treafure , and th ' eternal vault That bounds the hoary ocean , trace the forms Of atoms moving with inceffant change Their elemental round ; behold the feeds Of being , and the energy of life 515 ...
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... whose favour'd steps The lamp of science thro ' the jealous maze 120 121 Of nature guides , when haply you reveal Her fecret honours : whether in the fky , The The beauteous laws of light , the cen'tral pow'rs 130 42 The PLEASURES.
... whose favour'd steps The lamp of science thro ' the jealous maze 120 121 Of nature guides , when haply you reveal Her fecret honours : whether in the fky , The The beauteous laws of light , the cen'tral pow'rs 130 42 The PLEASURES.
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... fecret foul Difdain'd the imputation . On the ground I fix'd my eyes ; till from his airy couch He stoop'd fublime , and touching with his hand My dazzled forehead , Raife thy fight , he cry'd , 245 250 255 260 265 And let thy fenfe ...
... fecret foul Difdain'd the imputation . On the ground I fix'd my eyes ; till from his airy couch He stoop'd fublime , and touching with his hand My dazzled forehead , Raife thy fight , he cry'd , 245 250 255 260 265 And let thy fenfe ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 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.