The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . LandM-aw directioti of . ;^ . THE POETICAL WORKS OF MARK AKENSIDE. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. Genius of ancient Greece! uhofe faithful ftepsHaye led us to thefe awful folitudesOf Nature audof Science} Nuifereverdpf genrous counfels and heroic deeds! 0 let fome portion of thy matchlefs praifeDwell in my breaft, and teach me to adornThis unattempted theme !—Let me With blamelefs hand from thy unenvious fields Jranfplant fome living blofToms to adorn My n
The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . LandM-aw directioti of . ;^ . THE POETICAL WORKS OF MARK AKENSIDE. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. Genius of ancient Greece! uhofe faithful ftepsHaye led us to thefe awful folitudesOf Nature audof Science} Nuifereverdpf genrous counfels and heroic deeds! 0 let fome portion of thy matchlefs praifeDwell in my breaft, and teach me to adornThis unattempted theme !—Let me With blamelefs hand from thy unenvious fields Jranfplant fome living blofToms to adorn My native clinie-—while to my compatriot youth 1 foint the gi eat example of thy ions,And tune lo Attic themes the Britiih lyre. Pteajures of Jmasinatim Enlarged^ Come, j^kenfide! come with thine Attic urn» FilJ d troin Iliflus by the Naiads hand : Thy harp was tund to Y reedoin—Strain? like thine. When Aiias lord bor d the huge mountains fide,- And bndg d the lea, to battle rousd the tribes Ot ancient Greece jinonymout. E>!BB:LLI?HED with SUPERB ENGRAVJNGS. HouBon J Printed fore. COOKE, No. 17, Paternofter-Rowj
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