The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . here, negligent of all 6io Thefe lelfer graces, (he afTumes the portOf that Eternal Majefty that weighedThe worlds foundations, if to thele the mindExalts her daring eye, then mightier farWill be the change and nobler. Would the forms 615Of fervile cuftom cramp her genrous powrs?Would fordid policies, the barbrons growthOf Ignorance and Rapine, bow her downTo tame purfuits, to indolence and fear?Lo! llie appeals to Nature, to the winds 620 And rolling waves, the funs imwe
The poetical works of Mark AkensideContaining his Pleasures of imagination, Odes, Miscellanies, Hymns, Inscriptions, & . here, negligent of all 6io Thefe lelfer graces, (he afTumes the portOf that Eternal Majefty that weighedThe worlds foundations, if to thele the mindExalts her daring eye, then mightier farWill be the change and nobler. Would the forms 615Of fervile cuftom cramp her genrous powrs?Would fordid policies, the barbrons growthOf Ignorance and Rapine, bow her downTo tame purfuits, to indolence and fear?Lo! llie appeals to Nature, to the winds 620 And rolling waves, the funs imwearyd elements and feaibns. All declareFor what th Eternal Maker has oidainMThe powers of man: we feel within ourfeivesHis energy divine: he tells thie heart 625 He meant, he made, us to behold and loveWhat he beholds and loves, thegenral orbOf life and being ; to be great like and aftive. Thus the menWhom Natures works can charm with God himfelfHold converfe, grow familiar day by day 631 With his conceptions, aft upon his form to his the relifli of their fouls. 633 END OF BOOK TH E PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. rnHE Pkafures of the Imaginatm proceed either from natural ohje^s, arfrom a flounfljmg greve, a dear and murmuring fountatriy a cahnfea byjmonlighty or from works of art, fiich as a noble edifice., a mufical tune-, ajlatue^apiHure, a poem. In treating of thefe Pleafures we muft begin with the formerclafs, they being original to the other s and nothing more being neceffary in orderto explain them than a view of our natural inclination toward greatnefs and beauty,emdof thofe appearances in the world around us towhich that inclination is is thefubjea of the Fi>-Jl Book of the following Poem. But the Pleafures which we receive from the elegant arts, from mafic, fculp-lure, painting, and poetry, are much more various and complicated- In than(befides greatnefs and beauty, er forms proper to the Imagination J we find interv
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