Miscellanea aurea: or the golden medley.

Date:
1720
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miscellanea aurea: or the golden medley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Works of Contemplation, the rational Soul quits the Body, to mount up and view the Wonders of the great Creator. Thus it was with St. Paul) when he was wrap'd up into the third Heaven, he was not elevated fo high in Body, but in Spirit. Thus, likewife, it was with all the holy Prophets, or Poets of If rad and judah, they were lifted up in Spirit to fee all thofe wonderful Vifions, which difcoverd and denounc'd the Fate of Kingdoms. Thus, laflly, but in a much more inferior degree, the Bards are tranfported from their prefent State, and made capacious of Truths, and the great Images of Things, which are deny’d to the grovelling Verifiers of all Times and Nations; for the airy journey of the great Poets to Par- najfm, and the Converfation with the Mufes and Apollo, that is, with the Richnefs of Nature, is perform'd by the Mind alone. I thought it neceffary to premife the foregoing Coniiderations, to render the Account I am go¬ ing to give of my Voyage to Parnajfm the more probable, that it may have the greater Force with fuch into whofe Hands it may fall. Being retir'd out of Town, I went to fee and enjoy the pleafing Abode of Clermont, a Seat of the ill lift nous Duke of Neiocaftle, cele¬ brated by the immortal Verfe, Verfe worthy of its great Maher, of my dead Friend Sir Samuel Garth, whofe Poem I there read over, from whence, together with the moil: charming Pro- fped in Nature, I fell into the moft plealing Contemplation in the World, which rais'd my Soul to Thoughts fo fublime, that I burft put into a pathetick Invocation of Apollo and
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