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Akenside Akenside's Amalthea Amid ancient arms arts awful bards Beauty behold bloom bosom breast breath brow Callimachus Charles Townshend charms cheerful Daniel Wray delight divine doth dread dwell Dyson Earl of Huntingdon earth eternal fair faithful fame Fancy fate fix'd flame flowers forms freedom friendship genius gloom glory groves hand haply Hardinge harmonious hath heart heaven Hesiod honour honour'd hope hour human immortal labours laws lyre Lyric Poetry maid MARK AKENSIDE Megacles merchant's hopes mind mortal Muse Muse's Naiads Nature Nature's Newcastle upon Tyne nobler Nymphs o'er passions Physicians Pindar Pleasures of Imagination poem poet poetry pomp praise radiant reign ridiculous round sacred says scene scorn shade shame shine Sire smiles smiling band song sons soul springs strain streams sublime sway sweet thee things thou thought thro throne toil tongue Truth virtue Virtue's voice whate'er youth
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Page 138 - 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. 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...
Page 99 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, Earth and Heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime : here, hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces ; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Page 139 - Would sordid policies, the barbarous growth Of ignorance and rapine, bow her down To tame pursuits, to indolence and fear! Lo ! she appeals to Nature, to the...
Page 139 - 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 and being ; to be great like him, , Beneficent and active.
Page 208 - Saxon hands : 0 ye Northumbrian shades, which overlook The rocky pavement and the mossy falls Of solitary Wensbeck's limpid stream; How gladly I recall your well-known seats Beloved of old, and that delightful time When all alone, for many a summer's day, 1 wandered through your calm recesses, led In silence by some powerful hand unseen.
Page 138 - Resound soft-warbling all the livelong day : Consenting zephyr sighs; the weeping rill Joins in his plaint, melodious ; mute the groves ; And hill and dale with all their echoes mourn. Such and so various are the tastes of men.
Page 91 - 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.
Page 90 - They catch the spreading rays ; till now the soul At length discloses every tuneful spring, To that harmonious movement from without Responsive. Then the inexpressive strain Diffuses its enchantment : Fancy dreams Of sacred fountains and Elysian groves, And vales of bliss...
Page 121 - Spurning the yoke of these inglorious days, Mix in their deeds, and kindle with their flame, Say, when the prospect blackens on thy view...
Page 184 - 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...