The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside, M.D.: In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, ... for John Sharpe, 1808 |
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... Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , smiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent fancy ! from the fruitful banks Of Avon , whence thy rosy ...
... Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain . Thou , smiling queen of every tuneful breast , Indulgent fancy ! from the fruitful banks Of Avon , whence thy rosy ...
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... attend , Whoe'er thou art , whom these delights can touch , Whose candid bosom the refining love Of Nature warms , O ! listen to my song ; And I will guide thee to her favourite walks , And teach thy solitude her voice to hear , And ...
... attend , Whoe'er thou art , whom these delights can touch , Whose candid bosom the refining love Of Nature warms , O ! listen to my song ; And I will guide thee to her favourite walks , And teach thy solitude her voice to hear , And ...
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... attending it ; by which means the disagreeable impression which it at first occasioned will in time be quite obliterated . 5 These two ideas are oft confounded ; though it is evi- dent the mere novelty of an object makes it agreeable ...
... attending it ; by which means the disagreeable impression which it at first occasioned will in time be quite obliterated . 5 These two ideas are oft confounded ; though it is evi- dent the mere novelty of an object makes it agreeable ...
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... attend her o'er the waves , To seek the ' Idalian bower . Ye smiling band Of youths and virgins , who through all the maze Of young desire with rival - steps pursue This charm of beauty ; if the pleasing toil Can yield a moment's ...
... attend her o'er the waves , To seek the ' Idalian bower . Ye smiling band Of youths and virgins , who through all the maze Of young desire with rival - steps pursue This charm of beauty ; if the pleasing toil Can yield a moment's ...
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... of the art applies his measures to the head , the neck , or the hand , and , without attending to its beauty , pronounces the workmanship to be just and true . Did fancy mock your vows . Nor let the gleam Book 1 . 29 IMAGINATION .
... of the art applies his measures to the head , the neck , or the hand , and , without attending to its beauty , pronounces the workmanship to be just and true . Did fancy mock your vows . Nor let the gleam Book 1 . 29 IMAGINATION .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amalthea Amid ancient arms arts awful band bards beauty Beauty's behold bends bloom bosom breast breath bright Callimachus charms clime country's deeds delight Diodorus Siculus divine doth dread dwell e'er earth envy eternal fair faithful fame fancy fate fix'd flame forms frame freedom genius gloomy glory grove hand haply hast hath haunt heart Heaven Hesiod honour honour'd hope hour human Imaüs immortal impious Jove labour laws Lycurgus lyre maid MARK AKENSIDE Megacles mind mortal Muse Muse's Naiads Nature Nature's nobler Nymphs o'er Orphic hymn passions patriot Pindar Plato pleasure pomp praise proud radiant reign ridiculous rills round sacred sage scene scorn shade shame shine shore silvan sires smiles smiling band song sons soul springs strain streams sublime sway sweet taught Tethys thee Theogony things thou thought throne toil tongue truth vale virtue Virtue's voice whate'er wisdom Xerxes youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 20 - Through life and death to dart his piercing eye, With thoughts beyond the limit of his frame ; But that the Omnipotent might send him forth In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice...
Seite 33 - Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country, hail ! For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Seite 32 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here, hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Seite 21 - Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet?
Seite 25 - The orphan's portion ; of unquiet souls Risen from the grave to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life conceal'd ; of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of hell around the murderer's bed. At every solemn pause the crowd recoil, Gazing each other speechless, and congeal'd With shivering sighs : till eager for the event, Around the beldame all erect they hang, Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd.
Seite 93 - ... attentive mind, By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious: wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspir'd delight : her lemper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Seite 90 - From things deform'd, or disarrange, or gross In species '. This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow ; But GOD alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
Seite 22 - Rest at the fated goal. For from the birth Of mortal man, the Sovereign 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 soul should find enjoyment: but from these Turning disdainful to an equal good, Through all the ascent of things enlarge her view, Till every bound at length should disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene.
Seite 18 - Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful Moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of heaven ; to some she gave To weigh the moment of eternal things, Of time, and space, and fate's unbroken chain, And will's quick impulse; others by the hand She led o'er vales and mountains, to explore What healing virtue swells the tender veins Of herbs and flowers; or what the beams of morn Draw forth, distilling...
Seite 137 - Thou, who the verdant plain dost traverse here, While Thames among his willows from thy view Retires; O stranger, stay thee, and the scene Around contemplate well. This is the place Where England's ancient barons, clad in arms And stern with conquest, from their tyrant king (Then render'd tame) did challenge and secure The charter of thy freedom.