| Mark Akenside - English poetry - 1744 - 110 pages
...IMAGINATION BOOK the SECOND. • . ' . . . . • •- * WHEN all the laurel and the vocal firing Fefume their honours ? When fhall we behold The tuneful tongue, the Promethean hand Afpire to antient praife ? Alas ! how faint, How flow the dawn of beauty and oi truth • 5 Breaks the reluctant... | |
| John Gilbert Cooper - Aesthetics - 1757 - 420 pages
...PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. BOOK the SECOND. TTJ THEN fhall the laurel and the vocal ftring * * Refume their honours ? When fhall we behold The tuneful tongue,...how faint, How flow the dawn of beauty and of truth 5 Breaks the reluctant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations ! Long they groan'd Beneath... | |
| Archibald Campbell - English language - 1774 - 240 pages
...rewarded for your trouble. FlRSrPHYSICIAN. When fhall the laurel and the vocal firing Relume their honours ? when fhall we behold The tuneful tongue,...how faint, How flow the dawn of beauty and of truth Break the reluctant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations ! Long they groan'd Beneath... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 404 pages
...forrow, pity, terror, and indignation. "« TJ HE N fhall the laurel and the vocal ftring * * Refume their honours ? When fhall we behold The tuneful tongue,...faint, .How flow, 'the dawn of beauty and of truth 5 Breaks the reluftant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations ! Long they groan'd Beneath... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 388 pages
...indignation. •TT 7 HEN fhall the laurel and the vocal firing * * Refume their honours ? When mall we behold The tuneful tongue, the Promethean hand,...how faint, How flow, the dawn of beauty and of truth Break* Breaks the reluSant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations ! Long they groan'd... | |
| Mark Akenside - 1744 - 124 pages
...IMAGINATION. BOOK SECOND. WHEN ftiall the laurel and the vocal firing Refume their honours? When fhall we be. behold The tuneful tongue, the Promethean hand Afpire...how faint, How flow the dawn of beauty and of truth f -Breaks the reluctant fhades of Gothic night Which yet'lnvolve the nations ! Long thuy groan'd Beneath... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 404 pages
...indignation. WHEN fhall the laurel and the vocal ftring Refume their honours ? When thall we biliold The tuneful tongue, the Promethean hand, .Afpire to...how faint, How flow, the dawn of beauty and of truth y Brea!;i Breaks the reluftant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations ! Long they groan... | |
| Mark Akenside - English poetry - 1794 - 218 pages
...! THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION. BOOK II. VV HEN fhall the laurel and the vocal ftring Refume their honours ? When fhall we behold The tuneful tongue,...faint, . How flow, the dawn of beauty and of truth 5 Breaks the reluftant fhades of Gothic night Which yet involve the nations! Long they groan'd Beneath... | |
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