The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . godlike fires Of civil wifdom, thy heroic youth. Warm from the fchools of glory. Guide my way 590 Thro fair Lyceums walk,, the gieen retreats Of Academus, and tiie thymy vale Where oft, enchanted with Socratic founds, Ilifliis pure devolvd his tuneful ftream y. 591. L)ccu»t.] The fcliool of Arii>otIe. J^. 592. Jcadcmus.\ The fchool of Plato. jj-. 594, Iijfus.] One of the rivers on which Athens was , in fome of his fincit Dialogues) lays the fcene of the c
The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . godlike fires Of civil wifdom, thy heroic youth. Warm from the fchools of glory. Guide my way 590 Thro fair Lyceums walk,, the gieen retreats Of Academus, and tiie thymy vale Where oft, enchanted with Socratic founds, Ilifliis pure devolvd his tuneful ftream y. 591. L)ccu»t.] The fcliool of Arii>otIe. J^. 592. Jcadcmus.\ The fchool of Plato. jj-. 594, Iijfus.] One of the rivers on which Athens was , in fome of his fincit Dialogues) lays the fcene of the converfalionwith Socrates on its banks. PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. 43 In gentler murmurs. From the blooming ftore 595 Of thefe aufpicious fields may I unblamd Tranfplant fome living bloflbms to adorn My native clime ; while far above the flight Of fancys plume afpiring, I unlock The fprings of ancient wifdom; while I join 600 Thy name, thrice honourd! with th immortal praife Of Nature j while to my compatriot youth I point the high example of thy fons, And tune to Attic themes the Britifh lyre ? 604 END OF BOOK THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. BOOK II. ^f?e arcument* THE feparation of the works of Imaginntion from philoftphy the caufe oftheir abufe among the Moderns. Profpeft of tlieir reunion ui:der the influenceof libercy. Enumeration of Pleafures, which increafe theeffvft or obj-cl deiglufal to :he Imagination. The Pleafures of fenfe. Parti-culircirciimftriine. fthe mind. Difcoveiy of truth. Perception of contrivanceand defifin Emotion of *):e paflfions All the natural paffions partake of a fileafing ienfation ; with tl>e final caufe of this conftitution ^ illuarated by an Al-egorical Viiion, and exemplitieJ in Ibirow, pity, terror, and indignation. T^THEN fhall the laurel and the vocal ftring*^ Refumt; their honours? when (hall we beholdThe tuneful tongue, the Promethean hand,Afpire to ancient praile ? Alas ! how flow, the dawn of beauty
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