The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . himself for one mightyeffort, and soars aloft into the air, resolved to storm the very windows of Heaven and stirtheir calm peace, though tenfold hell be givenas his punishment: Quick as the levin, whose blue forks lick up the lifeof man, Aloft he sprang, and through his wings the piercingnorth wind ran ; Till like a glimmering lamp thats lit in lazar-house bynight. To see what mean the sick mans cries, and set his headaright, Which in the damp and sickly air the sputteri
The Ridpath library of universal literatureA biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors . himself for one mightyeffort, and soars aloft into the air, resolved to storm the very windows of Heaven and stirtheir calm peace, though tenfold hell be givenas his punishment: Quick as the levin, whose blue forks lick up the lifeof man, Aloft he sprang, and through his wings the piercingnorth wind ran ; Till like a glimmering lamp thats lit in lazar-house bynight. To see what mean the sick mans cries, and set his headaright, Which in the damp and sickly air the sputtering shad-ows mar, So gathered darkness high the Fiend, till swallowed likea star. THOMAS AIRD 205 What judgment from the tempted Heavens shall on his head go forth ?—Down headlong from the firmament he fell upon the Stars are up untroubled all in the lofty fields of air :The Will of Gods enough, without His red right arm made He that gave the Fiend a space, to prove him still the same ;Then bade wild Hell, with hideous laugh, be stirred her prey to claim. —From the Devils Dream on Mount AKENSIDE, Mark, an English physician andpoet, born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, November 9,1721; died in London, June 23, 1770. He studiedat the Grammar School at Newcastle, and at theUniversities of Edinburgh and Leyden, at thelatter of which he took his degree of Doctor ofMedicine in 1744. He practised his professionfirst at Northampton, and afterward in poem. Pleasures of ilie Iinagination, appeared in1744, and the author received a pension of ;^300 ayear from Mr. Dyson, to be paid until his prac-tice should support him. Besides his Pleasures ofthe Imagination he wrote a number of odes andminor poems and some medical essays. THE DIVINE IDEA IN THE IINIAGINATION. From heaven my strains begin; from heaven descendsThe flame of genius to the human breast,And love and beauty, and poetic joyAnd inspiration. Ere the radiant from the east, or mid the
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