 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...  The Poetical Works of Mark Akinside: With His Life - Page 84by Mark Akenside - 1838 - 143 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of lore, This fair inspired delight : her tempered k, 0 Sparta ! and demand my life ; My heart, exulting,...fame The gods allow to many ; but to die With equal These lesser graces, she assumes the port Of that eternal majesty that weighed The world's foundations... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1844 - 846 pages
...at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired 4 4 prospecte, if to gaze On Nature's form, where, negligent of all These lesser graces, she assumes the... | |
 | World history - 1844 - 580 pages
...kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight ; her tempered powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien." The philosophers whose lectures Socrates attended, were chiefly occupied in discussing difficult and... | |
 | Mark Akenside - Poetry - 1845 - 364 pages
...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...she assumes the port Of that Eternal Majesty that weigh 'd The world's foundations, if to these the miqd Exalts her daring eye ; then mightier far Will... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight : her tempered powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A...to gaze On Nature's form, where, negligent of all These lesser graces, she assumes the port Of that Eternal Majesty that weighed; The world's foundations,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair, inspired delight: her tempered powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A...to gaze On Nature's form, where, negligent of all These lesser graces, she assumes the port Of that eternal Majesty that weighed The world's foundations,... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...krndred-order, to exert Within he'rself/ this eleg'ance of lo've, This fair/ inspir'ed-delight : her tempered powers/ Refin'e at le'ngth, and every passion/ wears A ch'aster, milder, more attraActive-mien. B'ut, if to aAmpler-prospects, if to gaze On na'ture's-form, wh'ere (negligent of... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1847 - 208 pages
...kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight ; her tempered powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien. Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse ; grow familiar, day by day, With His... | |
 | Robert Holden Webb, William Higgins Coleman - 1849 - 462 pages
...seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself tbis elegance of love, The fair inspir'd delight— her temper'd powers Refine at length, and...passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien." AKENSIDE. RHAMNUS. Buck-Thorn. LINN. CL. v. ORD. i. NAME. Po/iwy, (Rhamnusj. Gr. for a thorny bush.... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight : her tempered powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien. FOR A MONUMENT AT RUNNYMKDE. Thou, who the verdant plain doth traverse here, While Thames among his... | |
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