The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . hannelld rock** RemurmVing ruOid the congregated floods* With hoarier inundation, till at laft** They reachd a gralfy plain, which from the fkirts** Of that highdefert Ipread her verdant lap, 285 ** And drank the gufhing moiiture, where confined** In one fmooth current oer the lilied vale** Clearer than glafs it flowd. Autumnal fpoils,* Luxuriant fpreading to the rays of morn,<« Blulhd oer the cliffs, whofe half-encircling mound* As in a fylvan theatre enclos*d 291 Tha
The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . hannelld rock** RemurmVing ruOid the congregated floods* With hoarier inundation, till at laft** They reachd a gralfy plain, which from the fkirts** Of that highdefert Ipread her verdant lap, 285 ** And drank the gufhing moiiture, where confined** In one fmooth current oer the lilied vale** Clearer than glafs it flowd. Autumnal fpoils,* Luxuriant fpreading to the rays of morn,<« Blulhd oer the cliffs, whofe half-encircling mound* As in a fylvan theatre enclos*d 291 That flowry level. On the rivers brink** I fpyd a fair pavilion, which diffusd** Its floating umbrage mid the filver (hade* Of ohers. Now the wellern fun reveald 295 * Between two parting cliffs his golden orb,** And pourd acrofs the fhadovv of the hills,** On rocks and floods, a yellow Itream of light* That cheerd the folemn fcene. My liftning powVs** Were awd, and evjy thought in filcnce himg 300** And wondring expe6lation: then the voice* Of that celeftial powr the myftic (how* Declaring, thus my deep attention caUd;. 1f^intcd\.^d by ^oi <..i^.iltf Auji PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. 53 ** Inhabitant of earth, to whom is giv^n** The gracious ways of Providence to learn, 305 ** Receive my layings with a Itedtail ear.—* Know then the Sovran Spirit of the world,** Tho felf-collefted from eternal time,** Within his own deep edence he beheldE 3 3^. 304. Inhabitant of earth, &c.] The account of the economy ofProvidence here intioduced as the raoft proper to calm and latisfy themind when under the compuniliori of privatj lvjIs, f^ems to have comeoriginally from the Pythagorean ichoolj but of all the ancient pjiilolopheisPlato has moft largely infilled upon it, has efublifncd it \viih all theftrengta of his capacious underftandi. g, and ;! it with all the mag-nificence of his divine ima;;lnation. He i as one paffage fo full and clea
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