The Pleasures of ImaginationT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 - 195 páginas |
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... pleasing stores Which beauteous Imitation thence derives To deck the Poet's or the Painter's toil , My verse unfolds . After this clear and concise definition , and lively and appropriate invocation to the powers of Fancy , guided by ...
... pleasing stores Which beauteous Imitation thence derives To deck the Poet's or the Painter's toil , My verse unfolds . After this clear and concise definition , and lively and appropriate invocation to the powers of Fancy , guided by ...
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... pleasing enchantment spread over the face of nature , a delusion , under which we see charms that do not at all result from the real properties of things , and which other intelligent beings it is pro- bable do not perceive . This ...
... pleasing enchantment spread over the face of nature , a delusion , under which we see charms that do not at all result from the real properties of things , and which other intelligent beings it is pro- bable do not perceive . This ...
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... pleasing , nor the most favourable to the dignity and importance of the Pleasures of Imagination ; for their boasted con- nexion with truth vanishes , except indeed in this sense , that beauty as an arbitrary mark is used with precision ...
... pleasing , nor the most favourable to the dignity and importance of the Pleasures of Imagination ; for their boasted con- nexion with truth vanishes , except indeed in this sense , that beauty as an arbitrary mark is used with precision ...
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... pleasing to the imagination . — The natural variety of consti- tution in the minds of men ; with its final cause . - The idea of a fine imagination , and the state of the mind in the enjoy- ment of those pleasures which it affords . All ...
... pleasing to the imagination . — The natural variety of consti- tution in the minds of men ; with its final cause . - The idea of a fine imagination , and the state of the mind in the enjoy- ment of those pleasures which it affords . All ...
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... pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives To deck the poet's , or the painter's toil ; My verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain ...
... pleasing stores Which beauteous imitation thence derives To deck the poet's , or the painter's toil ; My verse unfolds . Attend , ye gentle powers Of musical delight ! and while I sing Your gifts , your honours , dance around my strain ...
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Página 36 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 14 - From Heaven my strains begin; from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant Sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The Moon suspended her serener lamp ; Ere mountains, woods, or streams, adorn'd the...
Página 22 - Rest at the fated goal. For from the birth Of mortal man, the Sovereign Maker said, That not in humble nor in brief delight, Not in the fading echoes of renown, Power's purple robes, nor pleasure's flowery lap, The soul should find enjoyment: but from these Turning disdainful to an equal good, Through all the ascent of things enlarge her view, Till every bound at length should disappear, And infinite perfection close the scene.
Página 117 - For him, the Spring Distils her dews, and from the silken gem Its lucid leaves unfolds : for him, the hand Of Autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold, and blushes like the morn.
Página 63 - From granting to the task proportion'd aid; That in their stations all may persevere To climb the ascent of being, and approach For ever nearer to the life divine.
Página 80 - Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour, when, stealing from the noise Of care and envy, sweet remembrance soothes With Virtue's kindest looks his aching breast, And turns his tears to rapture.
Página 21 - Through fields of air; pursues the flying storm; Rides on the vollied lightning through the heavens; Or, yoked with whirlwinds and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract of day. Then high she soars The blue profound, and hovering round the sun Beholds him pouring the redundant stream Of light; beholds his unrelenting sway Bend the reluctant planets to absolve The fated rounds of Time.
Página 117 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings ; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting Sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Página 118 - Fresh pleasure only: for the attentive mind By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious: wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspir'd delight: her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Página 118 - For what the eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man : we feel within ourselves His energy divine : he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life...